THE 


Buffalo  SPRINGS> 

MECKLENBURG  CO..  VA. 

ANALYSIS, 

LETTERS  OF  EMINENT  MEN, 

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CASES  ILLUSTRATIVE  OF  THE  EFFECTS  OF  THE 
WATERS  IN  THE  VARIOUS  FORMS  OF  DISEASE, 

1874. 


RESIDENT  PHYSICIAN: 

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Of  'Boydton,  yirginia , 


RALTIMOTi  Ej 

K ITST  (3-  BROTHERS,  PRINTERS. 


1874. 


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Analysis  of  the  waters  of  three  of  the  Buffalo  Springs,  in  Meck¬ 
lenburg  County,  Virginia,  made  by  Professor  Wm.  P.  Tonry,  of 
the  Maryland  Institute,  Baltimore,  March  17th,  1874.  (Results  ex¬ 
pressed  in  grains  per  imperial  gallon.) 


SPRING '  No.  1.  Grains. 

Sulphate  of  Magnesia . 1.530 

Alumina . 8.180 

Potash .  0.463 

Lime . . 19.251 

Carbonate  of  Potash . . 

Bicarbonate  of  Lime .  39.277 

Lithia .  1.484 

Baryta .  . 

Iron . 0.500 

Chloride  of  Sodium . 1.256 

Silica  . 1.752 

Phosphoric  Acid . traces. 

Iodine . traces. 

Organic  Matter . small  amount. 


T^otal  number  of  grains  per  gallon . 73.693 

Sulphuretted  hydrogen . 5.9  cubic  inches. 

Carbonic  acid  gas.  .* . . . 69,1  “ 


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SPRING  No.  2.  Grains. 

Sulphate  of  Magnesia .  0.885 

Alumina . 9.067 

Potash . .  . 

Lime .  38.067 

Carbonate  of  Potash . 29.300 

Bicarbonate  of  Lime . 14.963 

Lithia .  2.250 

Baryta . 1.750 

Iron . 0.300 

Chloride  of  Sodium . 4.921 

Silica .  1  873 

Phosphoric  Acid . & . traces. 

Iodine . traces. 

Organic  Matter . small  amount. 


Total  number  of  grains  per  gallon . 98.376 

Sulphuretted  hydrogen . 8.3  cubic  inches. 

Carbonic  acid  gas . 59.2  “  “ 


SPRING  No.  3.  Grains. 

Sulphate  of  Magnesia . . 0.150 

Alumina .  3.035 

Potash . .  . 

Lime . 2.353 

Carbonate  of  Potash .  1.852 

Bicarbonate  of  Lime .  2  524 

Lithia . traces  of  Lithia. 

Baryta .  . 

Iron .  3  774 

Chloride  of  Sodium .  0.217 

Silica .  0.570 

Phosphoric  Acid . traces. 

Iodine . . 

Organic  Matter . small  amount. 


Total  number  of  grains  per  gallon . 14.475 

Sulphuretted  hydrogen . 3.4  cubic  inches. 

Carbonic  acid  gas . 11.6  “ 


Introductory  Remarks  by  the  Proprietor. 


BUFFALO  SPRINGS. 

.these.^nngs  are  situated  in  MecIdenFm™  , 
^Virginia,  ,one  hundred  and  twentv  u  g  unt7> 
^(Jnmond,  and  ten  miles  from  the  i  ^  S°Uth  °f 
.  1.  At,  and  BichlTd  &  1°°  *  %  “V’ 

E  W}°"?Yot  “  *•  ^ountai’na  they'a  e- 

?  ,  ®*«on  of  country,  which  for 

m  a  brok,  Vfcta**,  may  safe]  cta]|/n’ 

general  healw  •  region  of  the  globe 
parison  with  any  .  *eas0I1  q(  lg 

Up  to  the  close  ox  ^^7  ^  0  7  .  imexal 

waters  of  this  place  con  '  c  e  sPlm&  and 

to  that  spring  all  of  the  a  les«“ionials 

refer,  with  but  two  exception  %  f  er  ^le  c^ose  of 
the  season  referred  to,  the  pix^  ox  purchased  a 
tract  of  land  immediately  adjoining  old  Buffalo 
Spring  tract,  upon  which  were  disco\  ^^od  two  bold 
mineral  springs;  and  another  spring,  hi  therto  over¬ 
looked,  attracted  attention,  upon  the  original  or  old 
Buffalo  tract,  some  four  hundred  yards  distant  from 
the  original  spring,  making  the  springs  now  four  in 
number,  known  as  Nos.  one,  two,  three  and  four.  Of 
the  character,  effects  and  medicinal  value  of  the  orig¬ 
inal  spring,  or  No.  1,  the  testimonials  referred  to  give 
abundant  information. 

This  spring,  together  with  springs  numbers  two 
and  three,  have  recently  been  analyzed  by  Professor 
Wm.  P.  Tonry,  of  the  Maryland  Institute,  Baltimore. 


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His  analysis,  heretofore  given,  will  indicate  to  the 
physician  and  other  scientific  persons,  the  character 
and  value  of  these  waters,  and  the  diseases  in  which 
they  are  indicated. 

For  the  benefit  of  the  general  reader,  not  accus¬ 
tomed  to  judge  of  the  value  of  mineral  waters  by 
chemical  analysis,  I  wiil  state  the  effects  produced 
by  the  use  of  the  waters  from  these  new^prings. 

Spring  No.  2,  or  what  is  sometimes  called  the  Sul¬ 
phur  Spring,  is  one  of  the  most  decidedly  purgative 
waters  of  Virginia,  and,  without  question,  is  among 
the  most  powerful  of  diuretics,  and  would  seem  to  be 
indicated  in  all  derangements  of  the  billiary  organs, 
in  affections  of  the  kidneys  and  bladder,  and  in  drop¬ 
sical  effusions.  This  spring  contains  a  larger  percen¬ 
tage  of  the  Bicarbonate  of  Liihia  than  any  yet  discov¬ 
ered  in  the  United  States.  The  famous  Gettysburg 
Spring,  in  Pennsylvania,  which,  of  late  years,  has  at¬ 
tracted  so  much  attention,  owes  its  wide-spread 
celebrity  to  the  presence  of  this  valuable  salt,  which 
Professor  Geo.  B.  Wood,  of  the  University  of  Penn¬ 
sylvania,  says  is  “so  rare  in  nature,”  and  yet  it  holds 
in  solution  a  much  smaller  proportion  of  it  than  this 
spring.  And  it  is  this  ingredient  which  has  given 
such  world-wide  celebrity  to  the  Aix  la  Chapelle  and 
Vichy  waters  of  the  continent  of  Europe. 

It  has  an  extraordinary  power  as  a  solvent  of  the 
Uric  acid,  and  has  been  recommended  by  Dr.  Garrod 
of  London  as  an  internal  remedy  in  Gout,  not  only 
on  account  of  its  anti-acid  powers,  but  of  its  influence 


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in  preventing  the  formation  and  deposition  of  the  in¬ 
soluble  urates. 

Professor  Wood  also  says,  “there  is  perhaps  no 
other  remedy  from  which  equal  efficacy  may  be  ex¬ 
pected  in  the  removal  of  the  deposits  of  the  Urate  of 
Soda,  in  the  joints  and  ligamentous  tissues  in  gouty 
patients,  and  in  preventing  the  deposits  in  the  kid¬ 
neys,  bladder  and  urinary  passages.”  And  another 
distinguished  medical  writer  says,  “it  is  highly  anti¬ 
acid  and  diuretic,  and  is  peculiarly  adapted  to  the 
case  of  persons  threatened  with,  or  suffering  from, 
gravel,  stone  or  gout — there  is,  perhaps,  no  other 
known  remedy  that  premises  greater  relief  in  such 
cases.” 

Spring  No.  3,  or  the  Iron  Spring,  is  a  more  deci¬ 
ded  tonic,  stimulant  and  aperient  than  No.  1,  and  less 
diuretic.  It  is  both  in  its  aperient  and  diuretic  pro¬ 
perties  decidedly  less  active  than  either  No.  2  or  No.  4. 

Spring  No.  4,  of  which  no  analysis  is  made,  resem¬ 
bles  very  much  the  old  Buffalo  Spring.  It  is,  how¬ 
ever,  in  its  effect,  much  more  tonic,  more  aperient,  and 
more  diuretic  than  either  No.  1  or  No.  3,  but  much 
less  so  than  No  2. 

The  combination  of  waters  offered  here  is  adapted 
to  a  wider  range  of  disease  than  can  be  found  any 
where  in  this  country.  And,  since  the  published  analy¬ 
ses  were  made,  two  or  three  other  springs,  strongly 
impregnated  with  minerals,  have  been  discovered,  in¬ 
dicating,  unmistakably,  that  the  whole  valley  in 
which  these  springs  are  situated  is  a  mineral  bed. 


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I  purchased  the  Buffalo  Spring  property  a  few 
months  ago.  I  found  it  without  any  reliable  analysis 
of  the  water,  and  without  any  record  whatsoever  of 
the  remarkable  cures  which  it  has  performed;  and, 
so  far  as  I  have  been  able  to  learn,  no  former  propri¬ 
etor  of  the  property  ever  expended  the  amount  of  fifty 
dollars  in  an  effort  to  make  the. virtues  of  the  water 
known  to  the  public.  Under  these  circumstances  I 
need  not  say  that  my  own  efforts  to  place  &em  fairly 
before  the  public  have  been  made  under  difficulties 
and  embarrassments. 

The  testimonials  put  forth  by  the  mineral  springs 
generally,  as  to  the  medicinal  value  of  their  respec¬ 
tive  waters,  have  been  carefully  preserved  through 
series  of  years  by  proprietors  and  resident  physicians. 
Those  now  presented  in  behalf  of  the  Buffalo  Springs 
are  such  as  I  have  been  able  to  collect  in  the  few 
months  of  my  ownership  of  the  property. 

It  is  claimed  that  these  evidences  establish,  beyond 
any  question,  the  fact  that  the  Buffalo  water,  in  the 
Diseases  of  Women,  in  Dyspepsia  in  its  various  forms, 
in  Chronic  Intermittent  and  Remittent  Fevers ,  and  in 
short,  in  all  that  large  .class  of  disease  resulting  from 
malarial  influences,  is  possessed  of  a  more  general  adap¬ 
tation,  and  of  greater  curative  powers  than  any  of  the 
mineral  ivaters  of  the  Country,  North  or  South. 

This,  I  am  aware,  is  a  very  strong  claim  for  these 
waters.  An  intelligent  public  will  judge  if  it  be  sus¬ 
tained  by  the  evidences  to  which  they  are  referred. 
In  the  diseases  consequent  upon  the  teething  of 


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children,  the  action  of  this  water  is  that  of  a  charm . 
An  astonishing  cure  of  a  case  coming  under  this  heal 
is  reported  in  the  letter  of  Col.  E.  K.  Harris. 

It  is  worthy  of  especial  mention,  that  no  inconsid¬ 
erable  proportion  of  the  cures  reported  in  this  pam¬ 
phlet,  as  made  by  the  Buffalo  water,  are  cases 
in  which  the  most  noted  mineral  waters  of  Virginia, 
and  in  some  instances,  the  still  more  noted  waters  of 
New  York* and  Pennsylvania  were  first  tried  without 
berfit. 

The  old  buildings  at  this  place  are  now  undergoing 
repairs,  and  new  ones  are  being  erected.  By  the  1st 
day  of  June,  1874,  on  which  day  it  will  be  open  for 
the  reception  of  visitors,  it  will  afford  comfortable 
accommodation  for  three  hundred  and  fifty  persons. 

THOMAS  F.  GOODE. 


Boydton,  Va.,  April  10th,  1874. 


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Letters  of  Medical  Men. 


LETTER  OF  Dr.  WM.  T.  HOWARD,  (of  Baltimore,) 

Professor  of  Diseases  of  Women  and  Children  in  the  University 
of  Maryland. 

Baltimore,  August  1st,  1873. 

Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode, 

De  ir  Sir : — In  accordance  with  your  request,  I  take  pleasure 
in  stating  my  opinion  of  the  medicinal  virtues  of  the  Buffalo 
Springs.  During  my  long  residence  in  Warrenton,  North  Caro¬ 
lina,  I  sent  many  patients  to  Buffalo,  and  had  ample  opportunities 
of  observing  the  effects  of  the  water.  Experience  has  long  ago 
strongly  impressed  me  with  the  conviction  that  it  deserves  to  rank 
among  the  most  celebrated  mineral  waters  of  Virginia.  Nothing 
but  the  want  of  mountain  air,  its  comparatively  isolated  position,* 
the  paucity  of  the  accommodations  hitherto,  and  the  small  pains 
taken  heretofore  to  bring  the  Springs  properly  before  the  public, 
could  possibly  have  prevented  its  taking  position  with  the  far- 
famed  White  Sulphur  Springs,  in  Greenbrier  county,  in  the  wide 
range  of  cases  in  which  they  are  both  indicated.  Indeed,  in  a  cer¬ 
tain  class  of  cases,  it  is  much  superior  to  the  latter.  I  allude  to  the 
abiding  debility  attendant  upon  the  tardy  convalescence  from  grave 
acute  diseases ;  and  more  especially  to  the  cachexia  and  sequels 
incident  to  malarious  fevers  in  all  their  grades  and  varieties,  to 
certain  forms  of  atonic  dyspepsia,  and  all  the  affections  peculiar 
to  women  that  are  remediable  at  all  by  mineral,  waters.  In  short, 
were  I  called  upon  to  state  from  what  mineral  waters  I  have  seen 
the  greatest  and  most  unmistakable  amount  of  good  accrue  in 
the  largest  number  of  cases  in  a  general  way,  I  would  unhesi¬ 
tatingly  say,  the  Buffalo  Springs ,  in  Mecklenburg  county ,  Va. 

Very  respectfully  yours, 

WM.  T.  HOWARD,  M.  D. 

LETTER  OF  Dr.  THOMAS  P.  ATKINSON, 

(Late  of  Danville,  Ya.) 

Col.  Thomas  F.  Goode,  Boydton,  Ya., 

Dear  Sir : — I  have  been  greatly  gratified  to  learn  that  you 
have  become  the  proprietor  of  the  Buffalo  Mineral  Springs,  and 

♦This  property  is  now  within  ten  miles  of  railroad  communication,  with 
comfortable  accommodations  for  three  hundred  and  fifty  persons. 


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that  you  are  taking  steps  to  inform  the  public  in  regard  to  the 
great  value  of  its  waters  as  a  most  powerful  remedial  agent ,  the  more 
so,  because  I  am  satisfied  that  when  its  curative  properties  shall 
become  generally  known  and  properly  appreciated,  it  will  be 
regarded  as  one  of  the  richest  gifts  of  Providence  to  suffering  humanity. 
For  more  than  fifty  years  I  have  been  a  great  sufferer  from  that 
Protean  disease,  dyspepsia,  to  find  relief  frem  which  I  have  made 
many  visits  to  nearly  all  of  the  mineral  springs  in  Virginia,  in¬ 
cluding  the  Alleghany,  the  Montgomery  White,  Coyners,  the  Yel¬ 
low  Sulphur,  the  Greenbrier  White  Sulphur,  the  Old  and  the  Red 
Sweet  Springs,  the  Salt  Sulphur,  the  Hot  and  Warm  Springs. 
I  have  also  tested  the  virtues  of  the  Ballston,  the  Saratoga  and 
the  Lebanon  Springs  in  the  State  of  New  York,  and  I  can  say 
with  confidence,  that  I  derived  more  benefit  from  the  waters  of 
the  Buffalo  Springs ,  in  the  county  of  Mecklenburg,  Virginia,  thnn 
from  any  and  all  of  the  others.  I  have  visited  this  last-named 
watering  place  frequently  during  the  last  half  century,  and  have 
carefully  observed  its  effects  on  others,  as  well  as  experienced  its 
benefits  on  my  own  person,  and  I  regard  it  as  invaluable  in  all  the 
diseases  to  which  it  is  peculiarly  adapted — such  as  those  trouble¬ 
some  and  distressing  affections  to  which  females  are  specially  subject, 
and  particularly  such  (in  either  sex)  as  originate  under  malarial  in - 
ffuences.  So  marked  are  their  effects  in  such  cases,  that  its  former 
proprietor,  the  lamented  David  Shelton,  Esq.,  was  in  the  habit  of 
offering  accommodations  free  of  all  charge  to  any  and  all  persons 
who  should  fail  to  be  relieved  of  chills  and  fevers  on  using  the  waters 
for  a  period  of  fifteen  or  twenty  days. 

I  have  no  confidence  in  any  so-called  panaceas,  nor  do  I  think 
that  any  remedy  is  alike  efficacious  in  the  same  disease  affecting 
different  persons,  nor  indeed  when  used  by  the  same  individuals 
under  different  conditions  of  their  systems. 

I  would  not,  therefore,  recommend  this  or  any  other  remedial 
agent  as  promising  a  cure  in  all  cases,  but  I  have  great  confidence 
that  when  judiciously  used  “the  Buffalo  Water”  will  often  effect  the 
most  gratifying  and  not  unfrequently  the  most  astonishing  results. 

The  most  valuable  properties  of  this  water  are  those  of  an  alter¬ 
ative  and  a  tonic  character ;  it  is  powerfully  diaphoretic  and  diuretic  ; 
indeed,  it  affects  all  of  the  secretions,  but  its  crowning  glory  is  that 
it  is  the  best  tonic  in  all  the  land. 

To  a  person  debilitated  by  the  long  and  imprudent  use  of  medicine 
(and  there  are  many  such),  or  by  disease  or  overwork  (and  in  this 
category,  too,  there  are  many  sufferers),  it  has  no  equal  in  all  the 
range  of  medicines  of  which  I  have  any  knowledge. 

As  a  prophet  is  without  honor  in  his  own  country,  so  do  we 
undervalue  the  blessings  which  are  at  our  very  doors,  and  seek  at 
great  cost  and  labor  to  obtain  those  of  less  worth  at  a  distance 
from  us.  Our  people  prefer  to  purchase  “the  Shoddy  Cloth ”  of  the 
New  England  manufacturers,  to  the  far  better  material  which  is 


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made  in  Fredericksburg  and  Charlottesville,  in  our  own  State.  So  } 
it  is  with  the  sufferers  from  chills  and  fevers  and  the  malarial 
diseases  who  reside  in  the  lower  portions  of  North  Carolina  and 
Virginia.  They  prefer  to  make  fatiguing  and  expensive  trips  to 
the  trans-mountain  watering  places,  rather  than  to  avail  themselves 
of  a  superior  remedial  agent ,  (superior  because  better  adapted  to  the 
diseases  of  their  section  of  country,)  simply  because  the  former  are 
farther  from  home . 

If  this  voluntary  statement,  which  is  freely  given  without  solic¬ 
itation  on  your  part,  and  with  a  sincere  desire  to  benefit  the  public, 
shall  be  of  service  to  them  or  to  yourself,  I  shall  be  much  gratified. 
Let  me  say  to  those  who  know  nothing  of  me,  that  I  have  no 
interest  direct  or  otherwise  in  the  “Buffalo  Springs,”  and  that  this 
communication  is  made  “without  fee  or  hope  of  reward.”  It  may, 
therefore,  be  received  as  disinterested  testimony  in  favor  of  a  health¬ 
giving  fountain,  which,  to  be  appreciated,  needs  but  to  be  known. 

I  am,  yours  respectfully, 

January  5th,  1874.  THOS.  P.  ATKINSON,  M.  D. 


LETTER  OF  Drs.  WM.  H.  JONES  AND  M.  M.  JORDAN, 

(of  Boydton,  Va.) — Eighteen  miles  distant  from  the  Buffalo 
Springs. 

Boydton,  Va.,  Dec.  10th,  1873. 

Col.  Thos  F.  Goode  : 

Dear  Sir, — In  compliance  with  your  request,  we  give  you 
our  opinion  of  the  Buffalo  water  as  a  “  Medicinal  Agent.”  This 
water  combines  most  happily  alterative  and  tonic  properties,  and  is  a 
remedy  of  great  value  in  all  diseases  requiring  at  the  same  time  al¬ 
terative  and  tonic  treatment.  As  a  general  tonic  and  invig orator  of 
the  enfeebled  human  system,  we  know  of  nothing  equal  to  it  in  medicine 
or  mineral  waters. 

It  is  rarely,  if  ever,  that  an  invalid  under  its  influence,  is  debili¬ 
tated  even  temporarily ;  on  the  contrary,  while  all  of  the  great  or¬ 
gans  of  secretion,  the  bowels,  kidneys  and  skin,  are  rapidly  elimin¬ 
ating  disease  from  the  system,  he  will  find  himself  daily  increasing 
in  strength.  It  has  a  decidedly  exhilarating  effect  upon  the  nerv¬ 
ous  system,  and  is  highly  beneficial  in  all  cases  attended  by  mental 
depression. 

This  water  has  been  used  with  marked  success  in  most  of  the 
various  forms  of  chronic  disease,  which  are  regarded  as  remediable 
by  mineral  waters.  The  concurring  testimony  of  medical  men,  and 
indeed  of  unprofessional  persons,  who  have  been  accustomed  to  ob¬ 
serve  its  effects,  ascribe  to  it  pre-emirumt  powers  in  the  disease# pecu¬ 
liar  to  women;  in  derangements  of  the  digestive  organs,  and  in  all  that 
large  class  of  disease  attributed  to  malarial  influences.  We  feel  war- 


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ranted  in  expressing  the  opinion,  that  within  this  range  of  disease, 
it  is  possessed  of  a  more  general  adaptation,  and  greater  curative 
powers  than  any  of  the  mineral  waters  known  to  us. 

It  is  a  powerful  and  prompt  corrective  of  acidity,  creates  gener¬ 
ally  a  voracious  appetite,  and  at  the  same  time  so  invigorates  the 
digestive  organs,  as  to  enable  even  the  feeble  stomach  to  dispose, 
without  discomfort,  of  almost  any  amount  of  food  taken  into  it.  It 
is  not  unfrequently  the  case,  that  persons  go  to  these  Springs  who 
are  confined  at  home  to  the  simplest  articles  of  diet,  paying  a  heavy 
penaltv  for  the  slightest  transgression  of  the  strictest  regimen,  and 
in  a  few  weeks,  or  perhaps  a  few  days,  eat  with  impunity  anything 
ordinarily  found  upon  the  table,  including  gross  meats  and  rich 
desserts.  And  it  is  but  rovrely  that,  the  dyspeptic,  using  this  water, 
fails  to  find  decided  and  permanent  relief. 

We  witnessed  the  most  decided  and  beneficial  result  from  the  use 
of  this  water  in  a  very  distressing  case  of  nervous  dyspepsia,  at¬ 
tended  by  great  prostration,  bodily  and  mental,  where  all  of  the 
most  noted  of  the  mineral  springs  of  Virginia  were  first  tried  for 
several  consecutive  summers,  and  the  Saratoga  Springs  of  N.York, 
and  the  Bedford  and  Gettysburg  Springs  of  Pennsylvania  also 
faithfully  tested,  without  any  one  of  them  giving  to  the  patient 
even  temporary  relief. 

The  above  refers  especially  to  what  was  known  until  very  re¬ 
cently  as  Buffalo  Spring. 

Since  the  purchase  by  you,  Nos.  2  and  3  have  been  discovered, 
and  the  analysis  of  them  made  by  Professor  Tonry  of  Baltimore. 
We  class  all  the  springs  as  saline  chalybeates,  possessing  aperient, 
diuretic,  tonic  and  alterative  properties  so  combined  as  to  be  appli¬ 
cable  to  a  large  number  of  diseases.  In  No.  2  is  found  a  large  per 
centage  of  a  most  valuable  remedial  agent,  “  Salt  of  Lithium,”  con¬ 
tained  in  but  two  other  springs  in  America,  and  in  far  less  quanti¬ 
ty  than  in  the  Buffalo  Springs. 

This  has  given  such  great  celebrity  to  the  Carlsbad  Spring  in 
Germany.  Lithia  is  especially  adapted  to  the  treatment  of  that 
most  painful  and  intractable  disease  the  “  Gout,”  as  also  its  frequent 
associate  Rheumatism,  in  degeneration  of  the  kidneys  and  diseases 
of  the  bladder  dependent  on  uric  acid.  By  its  use,  uric  acid,  the 
element  of  gouty  diathese,  is  eliminated  from  the  system,  and  its 
deposition  in  the  bladder,  kidneys  and  joints  prevented.  It  is  a 
remedy  of  great  value  in  all  diseases  dependent  on  the  excess  of  any 
acid  in  any  of  the  secretions,  or  in  the  blood. 

The  union  of  the  various  ingredients  renders  the  use  of  the  wa¬ 
ters  of  these  Springs,  judiciously  administered,  of  inestimable  value, 
and,  as  we  think,  applicable  to  a  larger  number  of  diseases  than  any 
other  one  spring  in  the  United  States. 

Very  respectfully, 

WM.  H.  JONES,  M.  D. 

M.  M.  JORDAN,  M.  D. 


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DYSPEPSIA. 

CASE  OF  Dr.  P.  A.  FLOURNOY,  (Charlotte  Co.  Va.) 

HIS  OPINION  OF  THE  BUFFALO  WATER. 

Charlotte  C.  H.,  Va.,  Dec.  17th,  1873. 

Col.  Goode: 

Dear  Sir , — In  the  summer  of  1864,  I  visited  the  Buffalo 
Springs,  as  I  supposed,  a  confirmed  dyspeptic;  I  was  weak,  emaciated 
and  despondent ,  and  in  fact  my  constitution  was  shattered  by  my  dis¬ 
ease.  I  used  the  water  for  a  short  time — I  do  not  now  recollect 
with  precision  how  long :  in  a  few  days  after  I  commenced  the  use 
of  it,  I  began  to  improve,  and  continued  to  do  so,  until  I  was  re¬ 
stored  to  perfect  health.  The  cure  was  complete. 

From  my  own  experience  with  the  water,  and  what  I  witness¬ 
ed  of  its  effects  upon  others,  I  regard  it  as  equal ,  if  not  superior ,  to 
any  of  the  mineral  waters  of  Virginia,  in  all  diseases  of  the  digestive 
organs  ;  I  also  regard  it  as  of  great  value  in  female  diseases ,  general 
debility,  &c.  Yours,  truly, 

P.  A.  FLOURNOY,  M.  D. 

,  LETTER  OF  Dr.  G.  A.  WILSON,  (Granville  Co.  N.  C.) 
Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode: 

My  Dear  Sir, — For  more  than  thirty -five  years  I  have  been 
an  observer  of  the  effects  of  the  waters  of  the  Buffalo  Springs  upon 
the  functions  of  the  human  body,  both  in  health  and  disease.  These 
effects  are  so  marked  and  well  defined,  that  I  think  that  I  can  ren¬ 
der  them  intelligible  to  the  commonest  capacity,  and  in  a  narrow 
compass.  When  a  healthy  person  is  brought  under  the  influence 
of  these  waters,  he  will  be  conscious  of  exhilaration  of  spirits  and 
exaltation  of  all  his  sensibilities;  in  fact,  he  will  feel  that 
he  is  under  the  influence  of  a  decided  stimulus ;  and  in 
some  persons  these  effects  produce  decided  discomfort.  But  this 
stimulant  action  is  promptly  followed  by  a  marked  increase  in  the 
functional  exercises  of  all  the  excretory  organs  of  the  body,  most 
conspicuously  in  the  kidneys  and  skin.  Under  this  continued 
action,  the  appetite  becomes  voracious,  and  all  the  great  functions 
of  nutrition  are  wonderfully  invigorated  and  renovated. 

By  virtue  of  the  increased  and  hastened  excretion,  all  matters 
rendered  effete  by  having  subserved  the  purposes  of  life,  are  prompt¬ 
ly  eliminated  from  the  circulating  fluids,  and  the  veins  filled  with 
health-giving  blood. 

The  above  I  think  is  a  faithful  statement  of  the  effects  of  the 
Buffalo  water,  as  I  have  observed  it  for  a  series  of  years,  in  my  own 
person  and  that  of  others.  The  practical  physician  will  at  once 
see  the  wide  range  of  diseases  to  which  it  is  applicable.  I  enumerate 
a  few ;  and  this  embraces  the  whole  family  of  what  medical  men 


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recognize  as  resulting  from  malarial  poison,  always  so  prevalent 
throughout  our  whole  Southern  borders:  dyspepsia,  jaundice, 
hepatic,  sexual  and  anemic  dropsies — that  large  class  of  female  dis¬ 
orders,  resulting  from  a  failure  in  the  monthly  functions,  and  nerv¬ 
ous  disorders  dependent  upon  anemic  states  of  the  system. 

I  have  now,  sir,  given  a  mere  outline  of  the  effects  of  these  min¬ 
eral  waters,  and  I  should  do  the  subject  gross  injustice  if  I  failed  to 
allude  to  another  feature  of  their  value.  If  they  were  possessed  of 
no  positively  curative  powers,  I  regard  their  prophylactic  virtues 
of  inestimable  value.  In  our  busy  age,  there  are  multitudes  of  per¬ 
sons.  professional,  commercial,  and  in  all  the  ranks  and  avocations 
of  life,  heads  of  families  and  nursing  mothers,  whose  powers  have 
long  been  overtaxed,  and  are  ready  to  succumb  to  the  wear  and 
tear  of  life’s  duties.  If,  sir,  you  could  impart  the  virtues  of  these 
waters  to  this  class  alone,  you  would  deserve  the  benedictions  of 
your  race.  I  remain,  sir, 

Very  truly,  yours, 

GOODRIDGE  A.  WILSON,  M.  D. 


LETTER  OF  Dr.  SAMUEL  G.  HARRISS. 

Boydton,  Va.,  April  10th,  1874. 

Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode  : 

1 Dear  Sir , — I  have  learned  with  pleasure,  that  you  have  re¬ 
cently  purchased  the  Buffalo  Springs  property.  I  deem  it  a  matter 
of  congratulation  to  the  invalid  public,  that  an  effort  will  now  be 
made  to  give  to  this  water  the  rank  among  the  mineral  waters  of 
the  country,  which  it  should  long  ago  have  occupied  ;  and  that  it 
will  be  improved  in  a  manner  proportional  to  its  value. 

I  have  been  for  a  long  time  fully  persuaded  that  the  remedial 
powers  of  these  waters  had  only  to  be  made  known  to  secure  for 
them  a  popularity  second  to  no  other  mineral  water  in  the  coun¬ 
try.  In  diseases  of  the  stomach,  bowels,  liver  and  urinary  organs, 
and  in  general  debility  consequent  upon  long,  acute  attacks  of  dis¬ 
ease,  especially  malarial  fevers  in  all  their  forms,  I  regard  it  as 
equal  to  any  known  mineral  water.  In  diseases  arising  from  a 
loss  of  tone  and  strength  on  the  part  of  the  reproductive  organs  in 
women,  I  have  witnessed  the  most  beneficial  and  astonishing  re¬ 
sults  from  the  use  of  the  Buffalo  water,  and  in  the  whole  of  this 
large  class  of  disease,  I  regard  it  as  a  specific. 

I  find,  on  examination  of  the  analysis  of  this  water,  as  made  by 
Professor  Tonry,  an  eminent  chemist  of  Baltimore,  a  fact  which 
must  strike  all  medical  men  with  particular  interest.  I  refer  to  the 
unusually  large  amount  of  Lithia  contained  in  the  waters  of  the 
new  Spring  No.  2,  or  Sulphur  Spring.  This  analysis  shows  a 


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quantity  of  Lithia,  greater  by  far  than  is  contained  in  any  other 
water  in  this  country,  of  which  I  have  any  knowledge. 

Since  1843,  the  attention  of  the  profession  has  been  called  t©  the 
great  solvent  power  of  Lithia  and  its  salts  over  uric  acid  and  its 
salts,  in  the  treatment  of  all  that  class  of  disease  in  which  the  elim¬ 
ination  of  uric  acid  in  all  its  forms  is  needed ;  and  if  we  are  to 
judge  of  the  power  of  the  different  mineral  waters  of  this  country 
by  the  quantity  of  Lithia  contained  in  them,  we  are  fully  warrant¬ 
ed  in  the  expectation  of  great  benefit  accruing  to  those  afflicted 
with  gout,  rheumatism,  gravel  and  other  diseases,  dependent  upon 
the  presence  of  the  insoluble  urates,  by  the  use  of  the  waters  of  the 
Buffalo  Springs. 

It  should  be  a  matter  of  congratulation  to  the  public,  that  you 
have  been  able  to  bring  to  the  notice  of  the  afflicted  of  this  class,  a 
water  containing  so  potent  an  agent,  the  existence  of  which  was 
entirely  unknown  till  within  the  last  few  months. 

As  now  presented  by  the  recent  analysis,  I  regard  the  combina¬ 
tion  of  waters  at  Buffalo,  as  adapted  to  a  wider  range  of  disease 
than  any  other  of  which  I  have  any  knowledge. 

Very  respectfully, 

SAM’L  G.  IIARRISS,  M.  D. 


LETTER  OF  Dr.  O.  F.  MANSON, 

Professor  of  General  Pathology  and  Physiology  in  the  Medical 
College,  Richmond,  Ya. 

Richmond,  Ya.,  July  5th,  1873. 

Col.  Trios.  F.  Goode  : 

Dear  Sir , — In  reply  to  your  favor  of  the  3d  inst.,  I  would 
say  that  the  Buffalo  Springs,  in  the  county  of  Mecklenburg,  Ya., 
have  long  enjoyed  a  deservedly  high  reputation  with  physicians 
and  the  public  for  possessing  valuable  medicinal  properties. 

During  a  residence  of  twenty-one  years  in  the  State  of  North 
Carolina,  which  was  yet  in  the  vicinity  of  Buffalo,  I  had  numerous 
opportunities  of  witnessing  the  beneficial  influence  of  its  waters. 
I  do  not  remember  their  exact  chemical  analysis,  but  I  know  that 
they  are  strongly  chalybeate,  and  I  have  observed  sanative  effects 
in  diseases  attended  with,  or  succeeded  by,  general  debility ;  such 
as  atonic  dyspepsia,  malarial  cachexia,  chlorosis,  anemia,  hypochon¬ 
driasis,  hysteria,  cardiac  palpitations,  &c. 

These  waters  have  been  found  especially  curative  in  case?  of  chronic 
intermittent  fever,  many  intractable  cases  having  been  thereby  restored 
to  perfect  health  in  a  brief  space  of  time. 

Yery  respectfully  yours, 

O.  F.  MANSON,  M.  D. 


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LETTER  OF  Dr.  JAMES  SHELTON, 

For  a  number  of  years  Resident  Physician  at  the  Buffalo  Springs. 

Buffalo  Springs,  November  12th,  1873. 

Col.  Goode: 

DmrSir, — I  give  you  very  cheerfully  my  opinion  of  the 
Buffalo  water  as  a  “medicinal  agent.”  I  have  been  for  a  number 
of  years  resident  physician  at  these  springs,  and  have  had  an 
opportunity  of  observing  the  effects  of  the  water  upon  a  large 
number  of  invalids,  and  in  almost  every  form  of  chronic  disease. 
I  have  witnessed  the  most  gratifying  results  from  the  use  of  it  in 
the  diseases  of  females  in  their  multitudinous  forms:  in  affections 
of  the  liver,  spleen,  bowels,  kidneys  and  bladder;  in  dropsical 
effusions,  dyspepsia,  cutaneous  eruptions,  in  chronic  intermittent 
and  remittent  fevers,  and  in  the  general  debility  following  malarial 
diseases. 

In  the  diseases  of  females,  and  in  certain  forms  of  dyspepsia, 
the  great  restorative  power  of  this  water  is  most  unmistakable. 
I  have  never  seen  a  case  of  disease  coming  under  either  of  these 
heads  that  was  not  benelitted  by  the  water,  where  a  fair  trial  was 
given  to  it. 

I  saw  here  some  years  ago,  a  gentleman  from  the  State  of  Mis¬ 
sissippi,  suffering  from  dyspepsia  in  a  form  of  as  much  aggrava¬ 
tion  as  I  ever  witnessed  it.  He  arrived  here  in  a  very  emaciated, 
nervous  condition,  and  troubled  with  a  distressing  cough.  He 
informed  me  that  he  had  been  pronounced  by  two  medical  men  of 
eminence  to  be  in  a  consumption,  and  so  fully  was  he  satisfied  of 
the  correctness  of  that  opinion,  that,  though  remaining  at  the 
spring  on  account  of  the  health  of  bis  wife,  it  required  great  per¬ 
suasion  to  get  him  to  touch  the  water.  He  finally,  however, 
determined  to  make  the  experiment.  Decided  improvement  was 
soon  perceptible  in  his  condition,  and  during  a  stay  of  some  weeks 
at  the  springs,  his  cough  entirely  disappeared,  and  he  was  restored 
to  comfortable  health,  and  left  the  springs  entirely  satisfied  that  he 
had  no  affection  of  the  lungs. 

Of  one  of  the  new  springs  I  desire  to  make  special  mention  : 
I  refer  to  the  spring  known  as  No.  2,  or  the  Sulphur  spring.  This 
spring  has  been  tested  by  a  number  of  persons,  and  proves  to 
have  a  decided  action  upon  the  liver,  and  is  a  most  powerful 
diuretic.  I  must  think  that  it  adds  greatly  to  the  attractions  of 
the  place  in  the  way  of  mineral  water,  and  that  it  is  destined  to 
accomplish  great  good  in  the  treatment  of  the  hepatic  derange¬ 
ments,  so  common  in  the  South. 

Very  respectfully, 

JAMES  SHELTON,  M.  D. 


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LETTER  OF  Dr.  P.  W.  YOUNG,  (of  Oxford,  N.  C.) 

Oxford,  N.  C.,  September  16th,  1873. 
Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode: 

Dear  Sir, — I  take  great  pleasure  in  testifying  to  the  remedial 
virtues  of  the  water  of  the  Buffalo  Springs,  having  personally 
experienced  their  beneficial  effects.  I  consider  it  a  very  fine 
chalybeate  tonic,  having  a  peculiarly  exhilarating  effect  on  the  nervous 
system . 

1  I  confidently  recommend  its  use  to  those  of  my  patients  suffer¬ 
ing  from  dyspepsia,  especially  when  accompanied  by  depression  of 
spirits  ;  to  cases  of  debility  and  anemia,  especially  when  caused  by 
malarial  disease ;  to  cases  of  functional  disease  of  the  kidneys,  and 
in  diseases  peculiar  to  females. 

Respectfully,  P.  W.  YOUNG,  M.  D. 


A  COMPLICATION  OF  DISEASE. 

LETTER  OF  Dr.  E.  F.  P.  POOL,  (of  Nashville,  Tenn.) 

Nashville,  Tenn.,  February  28th,  1874. 

Col.  T.  F.  Goode: 

Dear  Sir , — Yours  of  the  24th  ult.,  requesting  a  statement  of 
my  personal  experience  with  the  waters  of  the  Buffalo  Springs,  in 
Mecklenburg  county,  Virginia,  and  also  my  opinion  of  it  as  a 
general  remedial  agent,  has  been  received. 

As  to  my  own  experience  with  the  water,  I  would  state  that  for 
seven  years  I  was  a  very  great  sufferer  from  dyspepsia,  attended 
with  chronic  diarrhoea.  In  the  summer  of  the  year  1842, 1  spent 
the  entire  season  at  the  Buffalo  Springs,  both  drinking  and  using 
the  water  as  a  bath.  The  result  was  a  complete  restoration  of  my 
health ,  and  I  have  to  the  present  time  had  no  return  of  my  disease. 

As  a  remedial  agent,  I  regard  it  as  valuable  in  all  affections  of 
the  stomach,  bowels,  liver,  skin  and  kidneys — especially  so  in 
derangements  of  the  uterus ,  no  matter  by  what  cause  produced,  unless 
accompanied  by  an  affection  of  the  lungs. 

Should  I  ever  be  a  sufferer  from  any  of  the  diseases  which  I 
have  enumerated,  and  am  able  to  get  there,  you  may  look  out  for 
me  at  the  Buffalo  Springs.  I  am  gratified  to  know  that  these 
springs  are  now  in  the  hands  of  one  who  will  make  a  proper  effort 
to  make  their  virtues  known  to  the  public. 

Very  truly  yours, 

E.  F.  P.  POOL,  M.  D. 

350  S.  Cherry  Street ,  Nashville ,  Tenn. 


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*  &.C.} 

LETTER  OF  Dr.  ALFRED  PLUMMER,  (of  Manson, 

Among  other  virtues  the  Buffalo  Water  a  powerful  Anodyne. 

Manson,  N.  C.,  March  16th,  1874. 

Col.  Goode: 

Bear  Sir , — You  ask  my  opinion  of  the  sanative  virtues  of 
the  Buffalo  water.  I  have  known  the  Buffalo  Springs  profession¬ 
ally  for  twenty-five  years,  and  during  that  period  have  Sent  a  large 
number  of  patients  to  them. 

In  affections  of  the  stomach,  bowels,  liver  and  urinary  organs, 
upon  systems  prostrated  by  repeated  attacks  of  chills  and  fevers, 
and  in  diseases  peculiar  to  women,  these  waters  produce  the  hap¬ 
piest  and  most  decided  results.  It  is,  however,  in  the  diseases  of 
women ,  especially  when  attended  by  nervous  prostration ,  that  the  great 
remedial  powers  of  these  waters  are  most  conspicuous. 

They  are  conceded  to  be  highly  tonic,  and  the  following  case 
would  seem  to  indicate  that  they  have  great  powers  as  an  Anodyne : 

A  lady  under  my  care  suffered  for  several  months  from  puerperal 
melancholy,  almost  amounting  to  mania.  Such  was  the  condition 
of  her  nervous  system  that  she  could  not  sleep  without  the  use  of 
opium  to  a  frightful  extent.  In  this  condition  she  visited  the 
Buffalo  Springs.  The  effect  of  the  water  upon  her  was  prompt 
and  astonishing ;  the  nervous  excitement  w'as  allayed  to  such  an 
extent  that  she  slept  there  as  soundly  and  sweetly  as  an  infant, 
without  the  aid  of  opium  or  any  narcotic  whatsoever. 

I  have  sent  young  ladies  to  these  Springs  so  enfeebled-  by 
malarial  influences  as  to  be  scarcely  able  to  walk  about  the  house, 
who,  after  a  few  days  sojourn  there,  would  be  so  invigorated  and 
strengthened  as  to  be  able  to  dance  the  greater  portion  of  every 
night.  Very  respectfully, 

ALFRED  PLUMMER,  M.  D. 

LETTER  OF  Dr.  B.  S.  WATKINS, 

A  practising  Physician  within  three  miles  of  the  Buffalo  Springs. 

Near  Buffalo  Springs,  Va.,  Sept.  23d,  1873. 

Col.  Tfios.  F.  Goode  : 

Bear  Sir , — I  reside  in  the  immediate  neighborhood  of  the 
Buffalo  Springs,  and  have  observed  the  effects  of  the  water  upon 
many  sick  persons.  I  give  you  in  a  very  brief  and  general  way 
my  opinion  of  it  as  a  remedial  agent. 

In  the  diseases  of  women  it  exerts  a  most  beneficent ,  and  not 
unfrequently  the  most  astonishing  power ,  and  if  possessed  of  no 
other  virtue,  this  alone  would  entitle  it  to  rank  with  the  most 
celebrated  mineral  waters  of  the  country. 

Not  second  to  this  is  the  power  which  it  evinces  in  feeble  and 
impaired  digestion.  So  kind  and  efficient  is  its  action  in  cases  of 


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this  character,  that  it  may  appropriately  be  termed  “a  stomach 
water  .”  In  protracted  remittent  and  intermittent  fevers,  and  the 
various  diseases  accompanying,  or  resulting  from  them,  these 
waters  act  most  happily  and  decidedly,  materially  lessening,  if  not 
entirely  destroying  the  strong  tendency  to  relapse  to  which  most 
persons  who  have  chills  and  fevers  are  subject. 

Very  respectfully, 

B.  S.  WATKINS,  M.  D. 


OPINION  OF  Dr.  SILAS  H.  HARRIS, 

Now  deceased — formerly  a  distinguished  physician,  who  prac¬ 
ticed  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of,  and  often  at,  the  springs — 
of  the  medicinal  virtues  of  the  Buffalo  -water. 

Dr.  Harris  was  so  strongly  impressed  with  the  value  of  these 
waters  as  a  remedial  agent  in  disease,  and  so  sensible  of  the  want 
of  all  proper  effort  to  make  them  known  to  the  public,  that  in 
the  year  1850  he  published  and  circulated,  gratuitously,  a  treatise 
entitled  “The  Buffalo  Springs,”  from  which  the  following  extracts 
are  made. 

“A  practice  of  more  than  twenty  years  in  the  immediate  neigh¬ 
borhood  of  this  spring,  has  afforded  the  writer  many  opportuni¬ 
ties  of  testing  the  efficacy  of  the  water  in  a  great  variety  of  dis¬ 
ease.” 

“The  principal  morbid  states  to  which  it  seems  to  be  well 
adapted  are,  dropsical  affections,  visceyal  obstructions,  protracted, 
intermittent  and  remittent  fevers,  chronic  diseases  of  the  skin, 
dyspepsia,  convalescence  from  fever  of  every  grade  and  type,  fe¬ 
male  complaints,  and  almost  every  disease  of  the  pelvic  organs 
of  both  sexes.” 

FEMALE  DISEASES. 

Under  this  head  Dr.  Harris  says,  “repeated  trials  of  the  Buffalo 
water  in  such  cases,  fully  establishes  its  claims  to  public  confi¬ 
dence.  Abundant  evidence  on  this  point  could  be  adduced  were 
it  deemed  necessary  or  proper.  While  I  do  not  claim  for  it  a 
perfect  adaptation  to  every  case  of  the  kind  under  consideration, 
1  feel  warranted,  from  long  experience  and  observation  in  its 
use,  in  recommending  it  in  all  cases  of  disturbed  menstrual  func¬ 
tion,  unconnected  with  advanced  tubercular  disease  of  the  lungs. 

“Where  a  mere  predisposition  only  to  the  latter  disease  is 
supposed  to  exist,  the  use  of  the  water  is  not  only  admissible, 
but  imperiously  called  for.”  Again,  upon  the  same  subject,  he 
says :  “In  all  the  diseases  before  enumerated  under  this  head, 
connected  with  deranged  menstruation,  either  as  cause  or  effect, 
the  water  acts  generally  with  the  happiest  results.” 


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DEOPSY. 

Dr.  H.  says:  “The  sufferer  from  dropsy,  either  general  or 
local,  will  find  in  the  Buffalo  water  a  safe  and  powerful  remedy. 
Medical  skill  has  not  yet  succeeded  in  compounding  any  mixture 
which  blends  so  harmoniously  a  tonic  and  diuretic  of  such 
potency  as  those  contained  in  this  water,  and  which  so  completely 
retains  and  exerts  at  the  same  time  their  specific  influence  on  the 
human  system.” 

VISCERAL  OBSTRUCTIONS. 

“It  is  in  those  hepatic  diseases  which  occur  in  warm  and 
miasmatic  regions,  (says  Dr.  H.)  that  the  water  displays  its 
greatest  powers.” 

DYSPEPSIA. 

In  this  disease  Dr.  H.  says :  “The  happiest  results  may  be 
anticipated.  One  proof  of  the  bland  and  healthy  quality  of  the 
bile  secreted  under  the  use  of  this  water,  is  the  voracity  of  the 
appetite  and  the  astonishing  vigor  imparted  to  the  digestive 
organs.” 

PROTRACTED  INTERMITTENT  AND  REMITTENT 
FEVERS. 

“In  the  chronic  forms  of  these  troublesome  endemics,  the  water 
acts  most  happily,  and,  if  persevered  in,  often  effects  a  permanent 
cure.  Those  enlargements  of  the  liver  and  spleen,  concomitants 
of  these  affections,  are  simultaneously  relieved  with  the  chills 
and  fever.” 

CHRONIC  DISEASES  OF  THE  SKIN. 

There  is  scarcely  one  among  this  extensive  class  of  diseases, 
from  the  simple  ringworm  to  the  rarest  and  worst  of  all,  sore 
legs,  elephantiasis,  that  is  not  materially  benefitted  or  radically 
cured  by  the  application  of  the  mud,  with  the  internal  use  of  the 
water.” 

CONVALESCENCE  FROM  FEVER. 

“When  the  system  has  been  worn  down  and  debilitated  by  a 
protracted  fever,  there  is  no  tonic  more  grateful  or  salutary  than 
this  water,  nor  any  which  so  speedily  and  certainly  imparts  to 
ail  the  crippled  functions  of  the  body  a  healthful  impulse.” 

AFFECTIONS  OF  THE  KIDNEYS  AND  BLADDER. 

“Viewed  with  reference  to  the  peculiar  action  of  the  water  on 
the  kidneys,  it  may  be  regarded  as  a  powerful  remedy  in  all  the 
chronic  diseases  of  those  organs,  as  likewise  those  of  the  bladder 
and  its  appendages,” 


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GONNORRHEA. 

“The  powers  of  this  water  are  conspicuously  displayed  in 
removing  those  diseases  of  the  male  sex,  acquired  by  licentious¬ 
ness  and  debauchery.  Penetrating  as  it  does  every  organ  and 
every  tissue  of  the  human  body,  through  the  medium  of  the  cir¬ 
culation,  chronic  disease  of  the  kind  referred  to,  and  the  scattered 
debris  of  old  complaints,  are  hunted  up  and  rooted  out.  The 
canker  worm  of  constitutional  disease,  which  has  been  so  ldng 
gnawing  into  his  very  vitals,  impairing  his  manly  energies,  is 
made  to  loosen  its  poisonous  fangs,  and  allow  nature  unobstructed 
to  perform  her  work  of  reparation.” 

“I  have  thus  briefly  noticed  the  principal  diseases  in  which  the 
Buffalo  water  has  been  found  useful.  There  are,  doubtless,  many 
others  of  a  kindred  character  to  those  already  pointed  out,  in 
which  it  would  display  its  wonted  powers.  But  enough  has  been 
said,  it  is  hoped,  to  direct  public  attention  to  its  claims  as  a 
remedial  agent,  and  confer  upon  it  its  proper  rank  among  the 
many  valuable  mineral  waters  of  the  Old  Dominion.” 

SUGGESTIONS  FOR  THE  USE  OF  THE  WATER. 

“  I  am  satisfied  that  an  error  is  often  committed  in  drinking  too 
much  of  the  water.  Three  or  four  glasses  before  breakfast,  and 
the  same  number  before  dinner,  with  an  occasional  glass  in  the 
evening,  are  entirely  sufficient.  A  larger  quantity  than  this  pro¬ 
duces  distension  of  the  stomach,  and  sometimes  an  almost  inces¬ 
sant  micturition.  Ladies  predisposed  to  menorrhagia  or  periodi¬ 
cal  hemorrhage,  and  particularly  while  laboring  under  these 
complaints,  should  be  extremely  cautious  at  first  in  the  use  of  it. 
The  same  remark  will  apply  to  those  persons  of  either  sex,  labor¬ 
ing  under  chronic  diarrhoea.  Three  glasses  a  day,  and  sometimes 
a  less  quantity,  will  aggravate  the  symptoms  of  these  diseases. 
Very  minute  potions,  often  repeated,  is  all  that  is  required  in 
such  cases  to  insure  its  tonic  effect,  and  thereby  restore  the 
natural  erasis  of  the  blood,  previously  impaired  by  exhausting 
discharges.  The  vital  fluid  being  thus  enriched,  new  tone  is 
imparted  to  the  solids,  and  that  relaxed  condition  of  the  body, 
on  which  the  continuance  of  these  diseases  so  frequently 
depends,  is  entirely  removed.” 


LETTER  OF  ROBT.  C.  NELSON,  M.  D. 

Christiansville,  Va.,  Sept.  5th,  1873. 

Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode  : 

Bewr •  Sir , — Your  letter  of  the  29th  ult.,  asking  my  opinion 
of  the  waters  of  the  Buffalo  Springs,  as  a  remedial  agent  in  dis¬ 
eases,  is  at  hand.  In  reply  I  have  to  say,  that  in  a  long  catalogue 


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of  diseases  peculiar  to  females,  in  most  cases  of  Dyspepsia,  and  as  a 
tonic  or  invigorator  of  the  system  daring  convalescence  from  ma¬ 
larial  fevers,  I  regard  these  waters  as  superior  to  any  within  my 
knowledge.  I  remain,  sir, 

•  Yours,  very  trulv, 

ROBT.  C.  NELSON,  M.  D. 


LETTER  OF  Dr.  PAUL  C.  YENABLE,  (of  Mecklenburg,  Ya.) 

Mecklenburg  Co.  Ya.,  -  1873. 

Col.  Goode  : 

Dear  Sir, — My  attention  has  been  professionally  attracted  to 
this  spring  for  many  years,  and  I  have  closely  observed  its  effects 
upon  the  diseased  human  system  I  regard  it  as  having  a  peculiar 
adaptation  to  affections  of  the  stomach  and  liver,  and  to  all  cases  of 
exhaustion  from  miasmatic  disease,  and  to  the  multitudinous  forms 
of  impaired  health  consequent  upon  the  latter,  and  also  to  affec¬ 
tions  of  the  kidneys  and  bladder.  In  the  diseases  of  females  it  is 
greatly  to  be  relied  on.  It  is  prejudicial  in  all  pulmonary  diseases, 
whether  in  the  active  or  chronic  form. 

Yery  respectfully, 

P.  C.  YENABLE,  M.  D. 


LETTER  OF  Dr.  JOHN  R.  LEIGH,  (of  Clarksville.) 

Clarksville,  Ya.,  July  3d,  1873. 

Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode  : 

Dear  Sir, — In  reply  to  your  favor  asking  my  opinion  as  to 
the  medicinal  value  of  the  Buffalo  Springs  water,  I  have  to  say  that 
I  consider  it  highly  beneficial  in  a  large  class  of  diseases.  Not  from 
a  careful  analysis,  but  from  the  effect  I  have  seen  upon  persons 
visiting  the  springs,  I  would  recommend  it  in  cases  of  Dyspepsia , 
general  debility  and  female  diseases . 

Yery  truly, 

JOHN  R.  LEIGH,  M.  D. 


LETTER  OF  Dr.  W.  R.  WILSON,  (of  Townesville,  N.  C.) 

His  opinion  of  the  water  of  the  Buffalo  Springs. 

Townesville,  Granville  Co.  N.  C. 

March  20th,  1S74. 

Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode  : 

Dear  Sir, — In  my  experience,  the  use  of  the  water  of  the 
Buffalo  Springs  has  been  productive  of  great  and  permanent  good 
in  the  following  classes  of  disease : 

First.  In  all  diseases  of  malarious  origin,  and  in  their  trouble¬ 
some  and  vexatious  concomitants. 


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Second.  In  Dyspepsia — especially  in  that  form  of  enfeebled  and 
difficult  digestion,  which  is  so  apt  to  follow  the  intense  and  ab¬ 
sorbing  attention  which  professional  and  business  men  give  their 
pursuits  in  our  day. 

Third.  In  some  cases  of  uterine  disease,  more  especially  when 
there  seems  to  be  a  lack  of  tone  and  vigor  in  the  reproductive 
functions. 

Fourth.  In  the  convalescent  stage  after  an  attack  of  almost  any 
violent  and  acute  disease — that  stage  of  general  debility  in  which 
most  of  the  organs  perform  their  functions  feebly,  and  in  which 
restorative  treatment  is  so  eminently  indicated,  I  know  of  no  more 
valuable  auxilliary  to  the  physician  in  his  treatment  of  such  cases, 
than  the  judicious  use  of  the  Buffalo  water. 

Respectfully,  your  ob’t  serv’t, 

W.  R.  WILSON,  M.  D. 


Reported  Cases  of  Cures  performed  by  the  Buffalo 
Water,  together  with  the  opinions  of  unprofes¬ 
sional  persons  of  its  value  as  a  medicinal  agent. 


DYSPEPSIA. 

Case  of  W.  S.  Mason ,  (of  Brunswick  Co.  Va.) 

Neab  Summit,  N.  C.,  Dec.  lOtli,  1873. 

Col.  Tiios.  F.  Goode  : 

Bear  Sir, — In  compliance  with  your  request,  I  make  you 
the  following  statement  of  my  case.  In  the  summer  of  1872,  I 
visited  the  Buffalo  Springs,  suffering  from  dyspepsia  and  nervous 
exhaustion.  I  had  been  reduced  to  a  state  of  extreme  debility,  so 
much  so,  that  it  was  with  difficulty  that  I  walked  at  all ;  I  was 
gloomy  and  despondent,  and  my  mental  sufferings  seemed  at 
times  equal  to  the  physical.  Upon  my  arrival  at  the  springs,  I 
was  confined  strictly  to  a  diet  of  cold  bread  and  water,  for  each 
meal ;  there  was  nothing  else  in  the  way  of  food  or  beverage,  that  I 
dared  to  touch .  I  drank  the  water  for  six  weeks,  and  before  the 
expiration  of  that  time  I  was  enabled  to  eat,  with  impunity,  almost 
anything  that  I  found  upon  the  table.  I  left  there  greatly  im¬ 
proved  in  flesh,  strength  and  spirits,  and  in  a  comfortable  state  of 
health,  which  I  still  enjoy.  I  would  recommend  all  dyspeptics  to 
give  Buffalo  a  trial.  Very  respectfully, 

W.  S.  MASON. 

Note. — It  is  proper  to  add,  that  before  going  to  Buffalo,  I  had 
been  treated  by  the  first  medical  men  in  the  country. 

W.  S.  M. 


DYSPEPSIA. 

Case  of  John  W.  Mackasey ,  a  well  known  Druggist  of  Boydton ,  Va. 
Ills  opinion  of  the  Buffalo  Water. 

Boydton,  Va.,  Nov.  17th,  1873. 

Col.  Thos.  F  Goode  : 

Bear  Sir, — You  request  me  to  give  you  a  statement  show¬ 
ing  the  beneficial  results  of  the  Buffalo  water  in  my  own  case,  and 
my  opinion  of  its  virtues  from  what  I  have  seen  of  its  effects  upon 


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others.  In  the  year  1849, 1  became  a  great  sufferer  from  dyspep¬ 
sia,  being  subject  after  every  meal  to  more  or  less  nausea,  fre¬ 
quently  throwing  up  every  thing  taken  into  the  stomach,  leaving, 
it  seemed, barely  enough  to  sustain  life.  Under  the  best  medical 
treatment,  I  grew  gradually  worse  until  the  summer  of  1852, when 
I  found  myself  reduced  from  an  average  weight  of  one  hundred 
and  fifty  to  ninety  pounds.  I  was  regarded  by  my  friends,  and 
certainly  regarded  myself,  as  upon  the  very  verge  of  the  grave. 
In  this  situation,  by  the  advice  of  my  physicians,  I  went  to  the 
Buffalo  Springs  and  remained  there  one  month.  The  water  acted 
happily  and  promptly  upon  me  ;  my  distressing  symptoms  rapid¬ 
ly  disappeared,  and  the  improvement  in  my  condition,  commenced 
while  at  the  springs,  continued  until  my  health  was  perfectly  re¬ 
stored.  I  have  but  rarely  had  any  return  of  my  disease,  and  never 
to  any  serious  extent,  and  I  now  weigh  one  hundred  and  sixty- 
five  pounds.  I  believe,  and  have  no  hesitation  in  expressing  the 
opinion,  that  the  Buffalo  water  is  one  of  the  great  stomach  waters 
of  the  world. 

Since  1852  I  have  been  a  frequent  visitor  at  the  Buffalo  Springs, 
and  have  seen  much  of  the  effects  of  the  water  upon  other  per¬ 
sons.  No  observing  man,  I  think,  could  remain  at  the  Springs  two 
weeks,  during  the  Spring  season,  without  being  forcibly  struck 
with  the  marked  and  happy  influence  which  it  exerts  over  the  fe¬ 
male  invalids  who  resort  to  it.  In  protracted  chills  and  fevers,  I 
have  known  this  water  to  give  the  most  decided  relief  in  obstinate 
cases  which  had  resisted  all  the  usual  remedies. 

Very  respectfully,  yours, 

JOHN  W.  MA0KASEY. 


DYSPEPSIA,  COMPLICATED  WITH  PROTRACTED 
CHILLS  AND  FEVER. 

Case  of  John  8.  B.  Bur  well. 

Near  Chase  City,  Va.,  Oct.  10th,  1873. 

Col.  Goode: 

Bea/r  Sir, — Several  years  since  I  became  a  sufferer  from 
feeble  and  disturbed  digestion,  attended  by  great  acidity  of  the 
stomach,  which  was  soon  followed  by  a  high  state  of  nervous  ex¬ 
citement.  I  became  gloomy  and  melancholy,  and  lost  all  interest  in 
the  affairs  of  life,  and  unfitted  for  any  of  its  duties.  While  in 
this  condition  I  was  attacked  with  chills  and  fever,  which  contin¬ 
ued  for  some  twelve  months.  The  combination  of  disease,  reduc¬ 
ing  me  to  so  wretched  a  condition,  that  I  often  felt  that  I  would 
prefer  death  to  life.  During  the  summer  of  the  present  year,  I 
went  to  the  Buffalo  Springs,  where  I  drank  the  water  for  two 
weeks,  and  found  myself  relieved  both  of  my  dyspepsia  and  chills, 


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and  restored  to  my  usual  cheerfulness  of  mind.  My  wife, who  had 
been  a  great  sufferer  from  chills  and  fever,  accompanied  me  to  the 
springs,  with  the  same  happy  result. 

Very  respectfully, 

JOHN  S.  R.  BURWELL. 


DYSPEPSIA,  NERVOUS  EXCITEMENT,  Etc. 

Case  of  the  Rev.  Herbert  T.  Bacon ,  a  Minister  of  the  Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  Church ,  South,  at  Clarksville ,  Va. 

Clarksville,  Va.,  March  30th,  1874. 

Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode: 

Dearc  Sir , — It  is  with  much  pleasure  I  avail  myself  of  the 
opportunity  to  attest  the  virtues  of  the  waters  of  the  Buffalo 
Springs,  and  with  the  hope  that  others  who  have  been  sufferers 
like  myself,  may  enjoy  its  benefits. 

In  the  summer  of  1870, 1  paid  my  first  visit  to  the  springs,  a 
broken-down  invalid,  to  whom  life  was  truly  a  burden,  and  who 
had  been  kept  alive  for  the  eight  months  previous  by  cod-liver 
oil  and  stimulants.  So  feeble  were  my  digestive  powers  that  my 
stomach  refused  almost  every  kind  of  nourishment.  I  had 
become  very  nervous  and  wakeful,  and  my  spirits  were  continu¬ 
ally  and  exceedingly  depressed. 

After  the  first  night  of  my  stay,  before  going  to  breakfast,  I 
drank  half  a  dozen  glasses  of  the  water,  and  to  my  surprise,  it 
gave  me  that  to  which  I  had  been  a  stranger  for  months  past — a 
sharp,  keen  appetite — and  what  was  still  more  desirable,  it  raised 
my  spirits,  and  I  found  myself  laughing  and  talking  with  those 
who  sat  near  me,  with  an  enjoyment  for  a  long  time  unknown. 

From  this  time  my  recovery  was  rapid.  I  used  the  water 
regularly  for  many  months,  (profiting  by  it  after  the  weather 
had  become  quite  cold,)  and  attribute  the  improvement,  which 
resulted  in  my  entire  restoration,  under  the  blessing  of  Provi¬ 
dence,  to  the  effects  of  the  water  of  the  Buffalo  Springs. 

As  a  tonic  and  an  exhilarant,  I  do  not  think  they  can  be  sur¬ 
passed;  and  to  one  who  is  a  sufferer  from  excessive  nervousness, 
from  wakefulness  at  night,  from  depression  of  spirits  combined 
with  dyspepsia,  I  am  sure  I  can  recommend  confidently  a  trial  of 
the  water  of  the  Buffalo  Springs. 

Yours  very  respectfully, 

HERBERT  T.  BACON. 


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DYSPEPSIA. 

Relief  given  by  the  Buffalo  Water ,  after  failifre  of  all  the  most  noted 
waters  of  the  Mountains  of  Virginia — Case  of  the  Hon. 

William  Townes ,  of  Occoneechee,  Va. — His 
Opinion  of  the  Buffalo  Water. 

Occoneechee,  Va.,  July  8tli,  1873. 

Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode  : 

Dear  Sir , — In  compliance  with  your  request,  I  cheerfully 
give  you  my  own  experience  with  the  Buffalo  Water,  and  the 
result  of  my  observation  as  to  the  diseases  in  which  it  seems  to 
he  indicated.  After  having  been  a  sufferer  from  dyspepsia,  in  a 
severe  form,  for  fifteen  years,  I  was  entirely  relieved  by  the  use  of 
th  >se  waters,  having  first  tried ,  without  benefit ,  the  most  noted  springs 
of  the  mountains  of  Virginia ;  among  them  the  justly  celebrated  Alle¬ 
ghany  Springs ,  in  Montgomery  county. 

In  affections  of  this  character,  I  regard  it  as  approaching  very 
nearly  to  a  specific.  Such  is  the  power  of  this  water  in  the  long 
catalogue  of  diseases  peculiar  to  the  other  sex,  that  for  delicate 
females  it  may  appropriately  be  termed  a  uPool  of  Bethesda .”  I  have 
seen  the  most  remarkable  cures  made  by  these  waters  in  cases  of 
dropsical  effusion  and  cutaneous  affections. 

Very  respectfully, 

WILLIAM  TOWNES. 


DYSPEPSIA,  CHRONIC  INTERMITTENT  FEVER,  &c. 

Case  of  the  Hon.  Henry  Wood,  of  the  Mecklenburg  bar — His  opinion 
of  the  Buffalo  Water. 

Clarksville,  Va.,  January  30, 1874. 

Col.  Thos  F.  Goode  : 

Dear  Sir, — Prompted  by  a  desire  to  serve  my  fellow-men, 
and  to  promote  your  interest  as  far  as  may  be  consistent  with 
that  object,  I  make  to  you  this  communication.  On  two  occa¬ 
sions  in  my  life,  I  have  been  reduced  by  disease  to  a  state  of 
great  debility  and  suffering.  About  the  year  1840,  I  became  a 
sufferer  from  dyspepsia  of  a  very  painful  character,  which  in  the 
year  1842,  reduced  me  to  a  very  unfortunate  condition.  In  the 
summer  of  that  year,  by  medical  advice,  I  visited  the  mineral 
springs  of  the  mountains  of  Virginia,  principally  the  Greenbrier 
White  Sulphur,  where  I  spent  two  months.  While  there  I  felt 
that  I  was  decidedly  benefitted ;  on  my  return  home,  however, 
I  very  soon  relapsed  into  the  condition  in  which  I  was  before  my 
visit  to  the  springs. 

The  next  summer,  that  of  1843, 1  visited  the  Buffalo  Springs, 
spending  most  of  the  summer  there,  where  my  health  was  fully 


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restored,  and  t  remained  in  robust  health  for  twenty-five  years  after - 
ivards,  having  no  use  for  physician  or  physic. 

In  1869,  I  was  Attacked  with  chills  and  fevers,  which  con¬ 
tinued  until  I  was  brought  to  a  very  low  and  distressing  state  of 
health.  In  this  condition,  in  the  summer  of  1871, 1  went  to  the 
Buffalo  Springs  and  spent  the  summer  there,  and  a  second  time 
became  indebted  to  the  Buffalo  Water  for  a  complete  restoration 
of  my  health.  Nothing ,  I  take  it,  could  be  mare  thoroughly  established 
by  human  testimony,  than  that  these  waters  are  possessed  of  the  most 
remarkable  remedial  powers  in  the  diseases  of  females. 

Since  my  first  acquaintance  with  them,  I  have  entertained  the 
opinion  that  to  place  them  in  the  front  rank  of  American  water¬ 
ing  places,  it  was  only  necessary  to  inform  the  public  of  the 
many  wonderful  cures  w  hich  they  have  performed,  and  these  cures 
not  r infrequently  in  cases  ichere  the  most  noted  mineral  springs  of  the 
country  had  first  been  tried  without  benefit. 

Very  truly  yours, 

HENRY  WOOD. 


A  COMPLICATION  OF  DISEASES. 

Uterine  *  Difficulty  accompanied  by  Indigestion ,  Torpid  Liver,  &c. — 
Case  of  Mrs.  W.  B.  Pierce ,  of  Prince  George  County ,  Va. 

Buffalo  Springs,  September  3d,  1873. 

Col.  Goode  : 

Dear  Sir, — My  wife  having  derived  the  most  signal  benefit 
from  the  waters  at  this  place,  I  deem  it  but  an  act  of  justice  to 
afflicted  humanity,  to  place  in  your  possession,  for  such  use  as 
you  may  think  proper  to  make  of  it,  a  statement  of  her  situation 
upon  her  arrival,  and  of  the  relief  which  she  has  experienced 
since  being  here.  An  acute  attack,  early  in  summer,  left  her  with 
a  very  torpid  liver,  dyspepsia  in  an  aggravated  form,  and  a  most 
distressing  uterine  affection,  the  combination  of  disease  reducing 
her  to  a  state  of  most  alarming  prostration.  The  best  medical 
aid  failed  to  afford  any  relief,  and  by  the  advice  of  a  distinguished 
physician,  I  brought  her  to  this  place.  She  arrived  here  on  the 
12tli  day  of  August,  in  a  state  of  utter  prostration,  having  to  be 
put  at  once  to  bed.  Her  stomach  was  in  a  highly  irritable  and 
painful  condition,  being  unable  to  retain  anything  in  the  way  of 
food  upon  it.  In  this  condition  she  commenced  the  use  of  the 
water  in  very  small  quantities.  It  gave  the  most  prompt  and 
decided  relief,  restoring  the  secretions  of  the  liver,  and  in  a  few 
days  her  stomach  was  in  a  healthy  condition,  enabling  her  to  eat 
with  impunity  almost  any  article  of  food.  She  lias  rapidly 
regained  her  strength,  and  her  uterine  difficulties  have  been 
removed — in  fact,  I  may  almost  say  that  she  is  in  her  usual 


^Hemorrhage. 


health.  We  leave  here  to-morrow,  on  our  return  home,  fully 
assured  of  her  early  and  complete  restoration.  Her  recovery  is 
regarded,  both  by  her  and  myself,  and  by  all  familiar  with  har 
condition  before  and  at  the  time  of  her  coming  here,  as  little 
short  of  miraculous. 

Yours  truly, 

W.  B.  PIERCE, 

City  Point,  Prince  George  County ,  Vet. 


NEURALGIA  OF  THE  UTERUS. 

Case  of  Mrs.  Thomas  F.  Pettits ,  of  Mecklenburg  County,  Va. 

Boydton,  October  13th,  1873. 

Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode  : 

Bear  Sir , — I  cfieerfully  give  you  the  following  statement, 
showing  the  benefit  derived  by.  my  wife,  from  the  waters  of  the 
Buffalo  Springs.  For  five  years  she  was  a  great  sufferer  from  a 
neuralgic  affection  of  the  uterus.  In  the  spring  of  1871,  her 
suffering  became  intense ;  the  attacks  then  occurring  every  few 
days,  became  so  violent,  that  in  each  one  of  them  it  seemed 
impossible  that  she  could  survive  it.  All  that  the  best  medical 
skill  could  do  for  her  afforded  no  relief.  In  the  summer  follow¬ 
ing,  I  carried  her  to  the  Buffalo  Springs,  where,  by  the  use  of  the 
water,  she  was  entirely  restored  to  health,  and  has  had,  to  the 
present  time,  no  return  of  the  disease.  Having  made  this  state¬ 
ment  of  facts,  I  need  not  say  to  you  that  language  could  hardly 
exaggerate  the  estimate  which  my  wife  and  myself  place  upon 
the  waters  of  these  springs. 

Respectfully, 

THOMAS  F.  PETTUS. 


NERVOUS  PROSTRATION  RESULTING  FROM  UTERINE 
DIFFICULTY. 

Case  of  Mrs.  S  B.  Baskervill — Indigestion  Resulting  from  Rtmit- 
tent  Fever. 

Case  of  Col.  Win.  Baskervill,  of  the  Mecklenburg  Bar. 

Boydton,  Va.,  February  6th,  1874. 

Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode  : 

Bear  Sir, — Commencing  the  winter  of  1840,  and  continuing 
through  the  spring  and  a  portion  of  the  summer  of  that  year,  my 
wife  became  a  great  sufferer  from  nervous  .prostration,  resulting 
from  uterine  debility.  The  remedies  prescribed  by  my  family 
physician  failed  to  afford  relief,  and  he  advised  that  she  be  taken 


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g 

to  the  Buffalo  Springs,  and  from  thence  to  the  springs  of  the 
mountains  of  Virginia.  She  accordingly  visited  the  Buffalo 
Springs,  where,  in  the  course  of  a  few  weeks,  she  received  entire 
and  permanent  relief \  rendering  a  trip  to  the  mountains 
unnecessary. 

In  this  connection,  I  would  add  that  it  would  he  difficult  to 
over  estimate  the  virtue  and  power  of  this  water  in  the  diseases  to 
which  females  awe  specially  subject . 

For  five  consecutive  summers,  I  was  the  victim  of  severe 
attacks  of  remittent  fever,  which  left  me  in  a  deplorable  condi¬ 
tion,  suffering  from  indigestion,  loss  of  appetite,  and  painful 
depression  of  the  whole  system.  So  soon  as  I  was  able  to  travel, 
after  each  one  of  these  attacks,  I  visited  the  Buffalo  Springs,  and, 
with  the  same  happy  result  in  every  instance — a  complete  restora¬ 
tion  to  health  in  a  few  weeks. 

It  is  well  known  throughout  all  this  region,  that  in  the  malarious 
diseases  of  the  low  country  and  the  nervous  prostration  result¬ 
ing  from  them,  these  waters  are  almost  a  specific . 

Yours  very  truly, 

WM.  BASKERVILL,  Jr. 


NERVOUS  PROSTRATION,  MENTAL  DEPRESSION,  Ac. 
Case  of  Miss  Hayes ,  of  Mecklenburg  County ,  Va. 

Boydton,  Va.,  November  22d,  1873. 

Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode, 

Dear  Sir , — My  daughter,  for  more  than  a  year,  suffered 
from  extreme  nervous  prostration,  and  great  mental  depression. 
Medicine  gave  her  no  relief,  and  by  the  advice  of  her  physician, 
I  sent  her,  in  August  last,  to  the  Buffalo  Springs.  After  spending 
two  weeks  there,  she  returned  home  in  good  health.  I  would 
confidently  recommend  this  water  to  all  delicate  females . 

Very  truly  yours, 

THOMAS  W.  HAYES. 


GENERAL  DEBILITY. 

Case  of  Mrs.  Madison ,  of  Petersburg ,  Va.. 

Petersburg,  Va.,  September  G,  1873. 

Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode, 

Dear  Sir , — In  reply  to  your  favor  of  the  2nd  ulto.,  I  take 
pleasure  in  furnishing  you  with  the  following  statement.  My 
wife  visited  Buffalo  Springs,  in  July  last,  in  a  state  of  great 
debility,  with  total  loss  of  appetite,  and  suffering  greatly  from 
despondency.  She  has  now  returned,  completely  restored  in 
health  and  strength. 

Very  truly  yours, 


R.  R.  MADISON. 


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GENERAL  DROPSY. 

Case  of  James  T.  Pace ,  Esq.,  of  New  Orleans ,  La. — His  opinion  of 
the  Buffalo  Water  as  a  remedial  agent. 

Little  Rock,  Ark.,  November  18,  1873. 
Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode, 

Dear  Sir , — In  the  year  1862, 1  had  a  violent  attack  of  gene¬ 
ral  dropsy.  I  was,  at  different  times,  treated  by  some  five  or  six 
of  the  most  eminent  medical  men  to  be  found  in  the  Southern 
States,  but  without  any  mitigation  of  my  disease.  Having 
despaired  of  relief  from  medicine,  I  went  in  the  summer  of  that 
year,  in  very  feeble  and  rapidly  declining  health,  to  the  Buffalo 
Springs.  The  water  acted  upon  me  like  magic,  restoring  me,  in 
some  five  or  six  weeks,  to  health  and  strength.  I  have,  on  seve¬ 
ral  other  occasions,  visited  these  springs,  much  prostrated  from 
the  effects  of  a  malarious  climate,  and  have  always  found  the 
waters  to  have  the  happiest  effect  in  building  up  and  restoring 
me  to  strength. 

I  have  seen  the  effects  produced  by  these  waters  upon  a  large 
number  of  invalids  and  in  many  forms  of  disease,  and  have  been 
a  frequent  visitor  at  the  most  noted  watering  places,  both  North 
and  South,  and  I  entertain  confidently  the  opinion  that  the 
Buffalo  Water ,  as  a  general  remedial  agent  in  disease ,  is  without  an 
equal  among  the  mineral  wa'ers  of  America ,  and  I  believe  that  the  day 
is  not  far  distant  when  such  will  be  the  public  judgment. 

Very  truly  yours, 

JAMES  T.  PACE, 

New  Orleans ,  La. 


LETTER  OF  THE  HON.  JOS.  B.  BATCHELOR, 

Of  Raleigh ,  at  one  time  Attorney  General  of  the  State  of  North 
Carolina. 

Raleigh,  N.  C.,  December  4th,  1873. 

Col.  Tiios.  F.  Goode, 

Dear  Sir , — I  cheerfully  comply  with  your  request,  to  give 
a  statement  of  my  experience  and  observation  of  the  effects  of 
the  water  of  Buffalo  Springs. 

In  1865,  being  in  very  feeble  health,  I  went  to  Buffalo,  by  the 
advice  of  Dr.  W.  T.  Howard,  and  remained  three  weeks.  The  bene¬ 
ficial  effects  of  the  water  were  so  great  as  to  give  surprise  to 
myself  and  my  friends.  Since  then  I  have  visited  the  Springs 
every  summer,  and  the  result  has  been  a  continued  and  marked 
improvement  in  my  health.  During  this  time,  I  have  urged 
several  friends  to  visit  the  Spring,  not  one  of  whom  has  failed  to 


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derive  material  benefit  from  it,  and  this  benefit  is  not  merely  tem¬ 
porary,  but  permanent. 

From  my  own  experience,  and  from  much  observation ,  lam  satis¬ 
fied  that  it  is  one  of  the  most  valuable  mineral  springs  in  Virginia , 
and  would  probably  be  beneficial  to  a  greater  number  of  persons , 
and  in  a  larger  range  of  cases ,  than  any  other  spring  in  the  State. 

Very  respectfully  yours, 

JOS.  B.  BATCHELOR. 


DYSPEPSIA,  TORPID  LIVER,  PROTRACTED  CASE  OF 
CHILLS  AND  FEVER. 

Statement  of  Col.  E.  K.  Harris ,  of  Virginia. 


Buffalo  Springs,  Va.,  August  29th,  1873 
Col.  Thomas  F.  Goode, 

Dear  Sir , — I  take  pleasure  in  furnishing  you  my  testimony, 
in  regard  to  the  virtue  of  the  waters  of  the  “Buffalo  Springs.”  For 
years  I  have  been  a  sufferer  from  indigestion,  and  especially  from 
a  torpid  condition  of  the  liver,  and  have  unvariably  experienced 
very  decided  benefit  from  a  stay  of  a  few  weeks  at  this  place. 

Some  years  ago  my  system  was  completely  worn  down,  and 
prostrated  by  a  protracted  case  of  chills  and  fever.  After  using 
all  the  remedies  indicated  in  such  cases  in  vain,  I  visited  the  most 
noted  watering  places  of  the  mountains  of  Virginia,  without  deri¬ 
ving  any  benefit ;  almost  in  despair  of  obtaining  relief  from  any 
source,  I  left  the  mountains  and  came  to  these  springs ,  where ,  in  a  few 
weeks ,  I  was  entirely  restored  to  health.  Three  summers  ago  I 
brought  my  little  boy,  then  a  teething  infant,  here,  whom  we  were 
endeavoring  to  raise  upon  the  bottle.  He  was  so  emaciated  that 
he  had  of  necessity  to  be  moved  about  on  a  pillow.  Physicians 
had  pronounced  his  case  hopeless.  I  kept  him  here  about  three 
weeks,  and  carried  him  home  well,  and  have  never  doubted  but 
that  the  water  saved  his*  life.  I  might,  were  it  proper,  refer  to 
cases  which  have  come  under  my  observation,  showing  the  remark¬ 
able  power  of  these  waters  in  the  diseases  of  women.  Their  repu¬ 
tation  however,  in  all  such  diseases,  is  so  thoroughly  established 
that  there  is  certainly  no  occasion  for  my  doing  so. 

Very  respectfully, 


E.  K.  HARRIS, 


LIVER  DISEASE. 

Case  of  Wm.  A.  Homes ,  of  Boydton ,  Virginia. 

Boydton,  Mecklenburg  Co.,  Va.,  [ 
December  1st,  1874.  J 

CoL.  Thomas  F.  Goode  : 

Bern  Sir — Early  in  the  summer  of  1862  I  was  taken  with 
an  enlargement  of  the  liver,  from  which  I  suffered  greatly,  and 
which  finally  reduced  me  to  such  a  low  condition  that  some  of  the 
best  physicians  in  the  county  despaired  of  my  case,  and  told  me 
they  thought  that  there  was  scarcely  a  hope  of  any  recovery,  but 
one  of  them  advised  me,  as  a  last  resort,  to  try  the  Buffalo 
Springs’  water.  I  was  carried  to  Buffalo  on  a  bed,  remained  six 
weeks,  at  the  expiration  of  which  time  I  was  entirely  relieved, 
and  have  never  suffered  from  my  liver  since. 

I  took  no  medicine  while  there,  and  attribute  my  recovery  en¬ 
tirely  to  the  use  of  the  water. 

Very  respectfully, 

WM.  A.  HOMES. 


EXPERIENCE  OF  Capt.  E.  A.  WILLIAMS,  (of  Clarksville,Va.) 
With  the  waters  of  the  Buffalo  Springs,  ' and  his  opinion  of  their  medi¬ 
cal  virtues.  Capt.  Williams  is  well  known  as  the  Cashier  of 
the  old  Exchange  Bank  of  Virginia,  at  Clarksville. 

Clarksville,*  Va.,  October  1st,  1873. 
Col.  Thomas  F.  Goode: 

Dear  Sir, — I  give  you,  most  cheerfully,  a  statement  of  my 
experience  with  the  Buffalo  waters,  and  my  opinion  (for  what  it 
may  be  worth,)  of  their  virtues.  I  have  been  for  forty  years  a 
great  sufferer  from  a  functional  derangement  of  the  liver,  having 
been  subject  to  occasional  aggravated  acute  attacks,  reducing  me 
at  times  to  a  very  distressing  condition. 

When  suffering  from  these  attacks  it  has  been  my  habit  for  a 
number  of  years  to  resort  to  these  waters,  which  have  never  failed 
to  restore  me,  in  a  short  space  of  time,  to  health  and  vigor. 

Some  years  ago,  during  the  prevalence  of  cholera  in  our  cities, 
I  had  a  very  severe  attack,  closely  resembling  that  disease.  I  at 
once  went  to  the  Buffalo  Springs,  and  after  using  the  water,  not 
more  than  five  or  six  days,  found  myself  wholly  relieved  of  the  dis¬ 
ease.  The  waters  of  these  springs  have,  and  in  my  estimation 
very  deservedly,  a  high  reputation  in  all  affections  of  the  stomach, 
bowels  and  kidneys,  in  protracted  intermittent  and  remittent 
fevers,  and  in  diseases  of  women.  It  is,  however,  in  the  diseases  of 
women,  that  it  exerts  its  most  unmistakable  and  powerful  influence. 

Very  truly,  yours, 


E.  A.  WILLIAMS. 


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DROPSY. 

Case  of  Peter  Jones . 

Mecklenburg  Co.,  Ya,  Sept.  19, 1873. 
Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode  : 

Dear  Sir , — In  the  year  1862,  while  a  soldier  in  the  Confed¬ 
erate  service,  I  had  an  attack  of  measles,  followed  by  pneumonia ; 
the  wearing  off  of  these  diseases  left  me  with  a  serious  dropsical 
affection.  I  was  sent  home  on  sick  list,  and  put  myself  under 
treatment  of  two  intelligent  physicians,  Drs.  Shelton  and  Scott, 
who  expressed  the  opinion,  that  medicine  could  not  give  me  relief, 
and  advised  me  to  try  the  water  of  the  Buffalo  Springs.  I  did  so, 
and  by  their  use  was  restored  to  perfect  health  in  a  short  time,  and 
in  a  few  months  returned  to  the  army. 

Yours,  respectfully, 

PETER  JONES. 


DYSPEPSIA. 

Case  of  It.  II.  Baptist,  of  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  Oct.  23d,  1873. 

Col.  Goode: 

Dear  Sir, — At  your  request,  I  furnish  you,  with  pleasure, 
with  the  following  statement,  showing  the  relief  which  I  derived 
many  years  ago  from  the  water  of  the  Buffalo  Springs.  In  my 
early  boyhood,  (I  could  not,  I  think,  have  been  over  14  years  of  age,) 
I  became  a  sufferer  from  dyspepsia,  of  a  most  painful  character; 
oftener  than  otherwise  my  food,  for  the  most  part,  after  each 
meal  was  gradually  thrown  off. 

While  I  was  in  this  situation,  I  was  attacked  with  a  cough  of  so 
much  severity,  that  it  was  supposed  by  my  family  and  friends, 
that  I  had  consumption.  After  suffering  greatly  for  several  years, 
I  was  advised  by  my  physician  to  abandon  medicine,  and  to  try 
the  Buffalo  water.  I  went  there  emaciated ,  nervous  and  exhausted; 
I  spent  a  portion  of  the  summer  at  the  springs,  I  do  not  now  re¬ 
collect  how  long,  but  long  enough  to  be  relieved  of  every  symp¬ 
tom  of  my  disease,  dyspepsia,  cough  and  all,  and  I  have  never  had 
the  slightest  return  of  any  of  my  painful  symptoms. 

Very  truly,  yours, 


R.  H.  BAPTIST. 


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OPINION  OP  GEO.  I.  DABBS, 

A  well  known  Druggist  of  Clarksville ,  Va.,  of  the  Buffalo  Water. 

His  experience  with  it  in  Dyspepsia ,  and  in  Chronic 
Intermittent  Fever . 

Clarksville,  Va.,  Oct.  10th,  1873. 

Col.  Goode  : 

Dear  Sir , — I  have  been  an  annual  visitor  to  the  Buffalo 
Springs  for  many  years,  and  I  give  you  with  pleasure  my  opinion 
of  its  remedial  virtues,  formed  from  what  I  have  seen  of  its  effects 
upon  others,  and  the  benefit  derived  from  its  use  by  myself  and 
other  members  of  my  family.  I  have  long  been  satisfied  that,  in 
most  chronic  forms  of  disease,  the  Buffalo  water  is  superior  to  any 
mineral  water  in  Virginia. 

I  know  that  this  is  saying  a  great  deal,  but  it  is  an  opinion 
which  I  have  long  entertained,  and  which  I  have  no  hesitation  in 
expressing.  If  any  record  had  been  kept  of  the  remarkable  cures 
that  have  been  made  by  this  water  in  dyspepsia,  in  the  diseases  of 
females,  and  in  the  various  forms  of  malarial  disease,  I  am  confident 
that  it  would  show  that  it  has  accomplished  beneficial  results  far 
exceeding  those  accomplished  in  the  same  time  by  any  other  spring  in 
the  country. 

My  first  wife,  who  was  a  great  sufferer  from  dyspepsia,  had  her 
life  prolonged,  I  am  satisfied,  for  years  by  the  use  of  this  water.  I 
went  to  these  springs  on  one  occasion  myself,  utterly  prostrated 
by  protracted  chills  and  fever,  after  trying  in  vain  all  the  usual  re¬ 
medies,  and  was  restored  to  perfect  health  in  a  few  weeks  time. 

Very  truly,  yours, 

GEO.  I.  DABBS. 


STATEMENT  OF  Mrs.  MAEIA  HABRISS. 

Extract  from  a  Letter  of  Mrs.  Maria  Harries,  a  lady  of  intelligence, 
residing  in  the  immediate  neighborhood  of  Buffalo  Springs, 
dated  September  25 th,  1873. 

|  “  I  have  myself,  when  in  feeble  health,  experienced  the  happiest 

effects  from  the  use  of  the  Buffalo  water.  If  it  was  beneficial  in  no 
other  disease,  the  beneficent  and  potent  influence  which  it  exerts  in 
the  cases  of  feeble  and.  nervous  women,  would  constitute  it  a  boon  to 
the  human  family A 

To  Col.  Tiiomas  F.  Goode. 


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Extract  from  a  Letter  of  Joseph  Blanks,  an  old  citizen  living  in  the 
immediate  neighborhood  of  the  Buffalo  Springs, 
dated  October  1873. 

“  These  springs  have  always  been  a  place  of  great  resort  for 
delicate  women,  and  it  is  generally  regarded  in  this  locality  as  a  pana¬ 
cea  for  all  their  ailments .” 


DYSPEPSIA. 

Case  of  B.  A.  Hamilton,  of  Granville  County,  JV.  C.,  at  one  time  a 
merchant  of  Petersburg,  Va. — His  opinion  of  the  Buffalo  Water. 

Edge  wood,  Granville  Co.,  N.  C., ) 
February  13th,  1874.  ) 

Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode: 

Dear  Sir, — In  compliance  with  your  request,  I  cheerfully 
give  you  a  statement,  showing  the  beneficial  effects  of  the  Buffalo 
water  in  my  own  case,  and  also  my  opinion  of  it  as  a  general 
remedial  agent,  based  upon  my  observation  of  its  effects  upon 
other  persons.  I  have  been  a  great  sufferer  from  that  Protean 
malady,  dyspepsia,  from  my  earliest  recollection,  on  account  of 
which  I  have  visited,  at  different  times,  nearly  all  of  the  springs 
of  the  mountains  of  Virginia,  those  of  my  own  State,  North 
Carolina,  and  the  Saratoga  Springs  of  New  York,  from  none  of 
which  have  I  received  so  great  and  decided  benefit  as  that 
experienced  from  the  use  of  the  waters  of  the  Buffalo  Springs,  in 
Mecklenburg  county,  Va. 

The  relief  which  I  have  on  several  occasions,  when  in  a  feebl  e* 
distressed  condition,  received  from  the  Buffalo  water,  has  been  so 
prompt  as  to  be  a  matter  of  astonishment  to  me.  I  have  witnessed 
the  most  extraordinary  results  to  other  persons-  from  the  use  of  this 
water,  snatching ,  as  it  were,  some  of  them  from  the  very  threshold  of 
the  grave. 

In  dyspepsia,  and  in  general  prostration  of  the  system,  induced 
by  either  mental  or  physical  causes,  it  acts  oftentimes  literally  as  if 
by  magic.  I  have  received  too  much  benefit  from  the  Buffalo 
waters  not  to  have  a  lively  sense  of  their  value,  and  take  much 
pleasure  in  thus  expressing  to  you  my  sentiments  in  regard  to 
them. 

I  am,  very  respectfully,  your  obedient  servant, 

R.  A.  HAMILTON. 


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SEVERE  CHRONIC  DIARRHOEA. 

Case  of  Mrs.  C.  N.  Mason ,  of  Mecklenburg  County ,  Va. 

Near  Boydton,  Va.,  February  9th,  1874. 
Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode: 

Dewr  Sir, — For  three  years  previous  to  the  summer  of  1873, 
I  suffered  with  chronic  diarrhoea  of  a  most  painful  character. 
During  this  period  I  was  treated  by  an  eminent  physician  without 
relief,  except  that  experienced  when  actually  under  the  influence 
of  remedies,  my  painful  symptoms  returning  whenever  the  reme¬ 
dies  were  suspended.  This  state  of  things  continued  until  the 
summer  of  1873,  when  my  disease  assumed  a  very  malignant  and 
alarming  form,  and  seemed  to  be  beyond  the  reach  of  medicine. 
My  stomach  became  ulcerated,  and  my  tongue,  which  was  as  red 
as  scarlet,  was  also  covered  over  with  the  most  painful  ulcers. 
My  physician  advised  me  to  visit  the  Buffalo  Springs  in  this 
county,  which  I  did,  arriving  there  in  a  state  of  great  debility, 
reduced  from  an  average  weight  of  one  hundred  and  thirty-five 
to  one  hundred  pounds. 

The  effect  of  the  water,  which  I  used  for  some  weeks,  was 
indeed  wonderful.  The  ulceration  disappeared,  my  tongue  assumed 
its  natural  color,  and  the  condition  of  my  bowels  greatly  improved. 
I  have  gained  twenty  pounds  in  flesh,  and  am  quite  hopeful  of  a 
complete  restoration  to  health. 

V ery  respestfully  yours, 

C.  N.  MASON. 


CASE  OF  HENRY  BRYAN, 

A  'prominent  planter  of  Granville  County,  N.  C.,  formerly  of 
Edgecombe  County,  of  that  State. 

Oxford,  N.  C.,  November  17th,  1873. 

Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode: 

Dear  Sir, — During  the  whole  of  last  fall  and  winter,  I  was 
confined  to  my  bed  by  severe  illness,  as  to  the  cause  of  which  my 
physicians  differed.  The  long  continued  attack  left  me  in  a  con¬ 
dition  so  diseased  and  enfeebled  that  none  of  my  friends  thought 
that  I  could  recover,  and  I  had  myself  well  nigh  despaired  of  any 
restoration  to  health.  In  this  condition,  I  went,  in  July  last,  to 
the  Buffalo  Springs,  where,  after  using  the  water  a  few  weeks,  I 
began  to  experience  the  most  decided  benefit.  I  am  now  in  my 
usual  health,  lor  which  I  feel  entirely  indebted  to  the  Buffalo 
water. 

Very  truly  yours, 


HENRY  BRYAN. 


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COMPLICATION  OF  LIVER  AND  KIDNEY  DISEASE. 

Case  of  Mrs.  Louisa  Matthews ,  of  Townesville ,  Granville  County, 
North  Carolina. 


Townesyille,  N.  C.,  Oct.  15, 1873. 

Col.  T.  F.  Goode  : 

Dear  Sir , — For  several  years  I  suffered  greatly  from  an 
affection  of  .the  liver  and  kidneys.  In  the  summer  of  1866,  I 
went  to  the  Buffalo  Springs,  with  my  liver  much  enlarged,  and 
suffering  severe  pain  in  the  region  of  the  kidneys.  After  using 
the  water  five  weeks  I  found  myself  entirely  relieved. 

Very  respectfully, 

LOUISA  MATTHEWS. 


LETTER  OF  C.  B.  WATKINS,  (of  Virginia.) 


Riverside,  Va.,  October  5th,  1873. 

Col..Thos.  F.  Goode; 

Dear  Sir , — I  give  you  with  pleasure  my  experience  and 
observation  as  regards  the  effects  of  the  Buffalo  water. 

In  the  summer  of  1861, 1  was  taken  with  a  very  severe  and 
protracted  spell  of  remittent  fever,  which  entirely  prostrated  me. 
As  soon  as  I  could  leave  my  room,  I  went  to  the  Buffalo  Springs, 
and  staid  about  ten  days ;  the  water  acted  upon  my  liver,  kidneys 
and  bowels,  most  happily,  and  so  strengthened  my  whole  system, 
that  I  was  at  the  end  of  that  time  entirely  restored  to  health. 
About  the  middle  of  August  last  I  had  a  severe  attack  of  bilious 
fever,  and  as  soon  as  convalescent,  I  tried  the  water  again,  with 
the  same  happy  result. 

I  have  known  of  and  seen  a  great  many  remarkable  cures  from 
the  use  of  the  water.  My  attention  has  been  particularly  called  to 
the  marked  and  happy  effects  of  this  water  upon  invalid  females. 
To  that  class  of  invalids  it  is  most  appropriately  characterized  by 
Mr.  Wm.  Townes,  Sr.,  in  a  letter  on  the  subject  of  the  springs, 
uas  a  Pool  of  Bethesda .” 

Very  tru'y,  your  friend, 

C.  B.  WATKINS. 


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UTERINE  DIFFICULTY. 

Case  of  Mrs.  T.  W.  J.  Baptist ,  of  Virginia. 

CHRONIC  INTERMITTENT  FEYER. 

Case  of  Mr.  T.  W.  J.  Baptist,  of  Mecklenburg ,  Va. 

Buffalo  Springs,  Va.,  Sept.  23d,  1873. 
Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode  : 

Dear  Sir , — You  ask  me  for  a  statement  of  the  benefit 
derived,  both  by  my  wife  and  myself,  from  the  use  of  the  Buffalo 
water.  With  regard  to  my  wife’s  case,  I  will  state  that  she 
has  been  a  great  sufferer  from  uterine  difficulty,  and  that  this  water 
has  had  a  very  happy  effect  upon  her.  My  own  case  was  one  of 
“chronic  chills  and  fever,”  which  reduced  me  to  a  very  low  and 
miserable  state  of  health ;  my  liver  was  very  torpid  and  my  com¬ 
plexion  sallow,  indicating  jaundice.  I  visited  the  Buffalo  Springs, 
drank  the  water  one  month,  and  returned  home  perfectly  well. 

Very  respectfully, 

THOMAS  W.  J.  BAPTIST. 


LETTER  OF  THE  Hon.  A.  W.  VENABLE, 

Formerly  a  distinguished  member  of  Congress  from  the  State  of 
North  Carolina . 

Oxford,  N.  C.,  January  5th,  1874. 

Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode  : 

Dear  Sir, — Permit  me  to  express  my  gratification  that  you 
have  become  the  proprietor  of  the  Buffalo  Springs.  My  knowledge 
of  yourself  assures  me  that  nothing  will  be  left  undone  to  develop 
the  virtues  of  the  waters. 

I  regard  these  Springs  as  a  peculiar  blessing  to  Eastern  Virginia 
and  North  Carolina,  affording  a  remedy  remarkably  successful  in 
repairing  the  injuries  done  to  the  constitution  by  malarial  dis¬ 
eases  :  such  as  remittent  and  intermittent  fevers,  with  their  accom¬ 
panying  diseases,  neuralgia,  dyspepsia,  &c.  &c. 

For  more  than  forty  years  I  have  occasionally  used  them — never 
without  profit — and  more  than  once  after  the  mineral  loaters  of  the 
mountains  of  Virginia  had  failed  to  effect  a  cure.  Indeed,  I  consider 
them  the  best  alterative  waters  within  my  knowledge. 

Wishing  you  great  success  in  your  enterprise,  by  which  you  will 
become  a  public  benefactor, 

I  am  yours,  most  sincerely, 

A.  W.  VENABLE. 


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A  COMPLICATION  OF  DISEASE— TORPID  LIVER, 
NERVOUS  EXCITEMENT,  &c. 

Case  of  William  Gold ,  Esq. 

Near  Buffalo  Springs,  Sept.  1st,  1873. 

Col.  Goode: 

Deevr  Sir, — After  six  or  eight  months  of  previous  ill  health, 
I  found  myself  in  the  summer  of  1870  reduced  by  a  complication 
of  disease  to  a  condition  so  low,  as  to  cause  me  to  feel  serious  ap¬ 
prehension  for  my  life.  My  prominent  symptoms  were  torpidity 
of  the  liver,  soreness  about  the  sides  and  chest,  with  considerable 
cough,  and  a  high  degree  of  nervous  excitement.  In  this  condL 
tion  I  went  to  the  Buffalo  Springs,  where  I  remained  most  of  the 
season  ;  I  left  entirely  restored  to  health,  and  am  now  as  well  as  I 
ever  was  in  my  life,  for  which  I  cheerfuffy  acknowledge  my  in¬ 
debtedness  to  the  waters  of  the  Buffalo  Springs. 

Respectfully, 

WILLIAM  GOLD. 


CASE  OF  Mrs.  R.  H.  BUGG. 

Clarksville,  Va.,  Sept.  15th,  1873. 

Col.  Tpios.  F.  Goode  : 

.  Deair  Sir, — Mrs.  Bugg  visited  Buffalo  Springs  about 
the  1st  of  August,  in  very  feeble  health  ;  she  remained  until  the  1st 
instant ;  and  I  take  great  pleasure  in  stating  that  her  health  is  very 
much  improved. 

Very  respectfully, 

RO.  H.  BUGG. 


OPINION  OF  J.  G.  POWELL,  (of  Nottoway  Co.  Va.) 

On  the  Buffalo  Springs  Water. 

Forkland,  Nottoway  Co.,  Va.,  Sept.  4th,  1873. 
Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode  : 

Dear  Sir, — I  have  been  for  some  years  an  invalid,  suffering 
among  other  difficulties,  with  torpidity  of  the  liver,  and  have,  on 
account  of  my  health,  visited  many  of  the  Virginia  springs,  and  I 
have  no  hesitation  in  saying  that  I  have  derived  more  benefit  from 
the  use  of  the  waters  of  the  Buffalo  Springs ,  in  Mecklenburg  county, 
Virginia,  than  from  any  of  the  mountain,  springs.  I  am  fully  satis¬ 
fied  that  they  possess  great  remedial  powers. 

Very  respectfully, 


J.  G.  POWELL. 


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STATEMENT  OF  W.  W.  THOMAS,  (of  Nottoway  Co.  Ya.) 

Case  of  Chronic  Chills  and  Fever ,  with  Torpidity  of  the  Liver. 

Nottoway  Co.  Ya.,  Sept.  4th,  1873. 

Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode  : 

Dea^Sir, — In  July  last  I  visited  the  Buffalo  Springs,  in  a 
very  feeble  condition,  resulting  from  chronic  chills  and  fever,  ac¬ 
companied  by  a  very  torpid  condition  of  the  liver,  and  fiom  the 
use  of  the  waters  for  some  nine  days,  I  received  the  most  decided 
benefit.  The  water  acted  like  a  charm  upon  me. 

Yours,  respectfully, 

W.  W.  THOMAS. 


LETTER  OF  WM.  T.  PLUMMER,  Esq,  (of  Petersburg,  Ya,) 
On  the  value  of  the,  waters  of  the  Buffalo  Springs. 

Petersburg,  Ya,  September  17th,  1873. 
Col.  Tiros.  F.  Goode  : 

Dear  Sir — It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  testify  to  the 
value  of  the  Buffalo  water.  I  regard  it  as  possessed  of  almost 
miraculous  powers.  I  believe  that  the  health  of  one  of  my 
children  was  permanently  restored  by  the  use  of  this  water ;  and 
I  have  seen  another  of  my  family,  to  whom  we  bade  adieu  with 
the  feeling  that  lie  would  never  return  alive,  come  back,  after  a 
month’s  sojourn  at  Buffalo,  looking  fat  and  healthy.  I,  myself, 
have  derived  great  benefit  from  the  use  of  the  water.  The  close 
confinement  of  my  business  tells  heavily  on  me  during  the  hot 
summer  months,  but  I  always  find  that  from  two  to  four  weeks 
use  of  Buffalo  water  strengthens  and  refreshes  me  for  renewed 
labor,  more  than  any  other  recreation  of  tonic  that  I  can  take. 

#  You  are  at  liberty  to  make  any  use  of  this  communication  that 
you  may  think  proper. 

Very  truly,  yours,  &c, 

W.  T.  PLUMMER. 


LETTER  OF  GEORGE  TARRY,  Jr,  (of  Mecklenburg,  Ya.) 

Mecklenburg  Co,  Ya,  Sept.  19th,  1873. 

Col.  T.  F.  Goode  : 

Dear  Sir — My  father,  Edward  Tarry,  was  afflicted  with 
erysipelas.  By  the  use  of  the  Buffalo  Springs’  water  for  two  weeks 
he  was  entirely  relieved  from  it. 

Yours  respectfully, 

GEORGE  TARRY,  Jr. 


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THE  NEW  SPRING  No.  2  —  A  DECIDEDLY  PURGATIVE 
WATER. 

Statement  of  A.  S.  Boyd ,  Esq.,  a  merchant  of  Boydton ,  Va. 


Boydton,  Va.,  February  12th,  1873. 

Col.  Thos.  F.  Goode  : 

Bear  Sir — I  have  used  the  water  from  the  new  spring  at 
Buffalo,  known  as  number  2,  and  found  it  a  most  decided  purga¬ 
tive,  so  much  so,  that  in  the  absence  of  any  analysis  of  the  spring, 
I  should  think  it  must  contain  epsom  salts. 


Very  truly,  &c., 


A.  S.  BOYD. 


LETTER  OF  Capt.  S.  P.  THROWER,  (a  member  of  the 
Mecklenburg,  Va.,  bar.) 

Boydton,  Va.,  March  31st,  1874. 

Col.  Thomas  F.  Goode  : 

Bear  Sir — I  have  been  very  much  interested  in  your  enter¬ 
prise  to  improve  the  Buffalo  Springs’  property,  in  this  county,  and 
in  your  efforts  to  make  it  what  it  long  ago  would  have  been,  a 
first  class  health  resort,  but  for  the  fact  that  its  merits  as  a  mineral 
water  had  never  been  properly  brought  to  the  notice  of  the 
public. 

I  have  been  a  constant  visitor  to  these  springs  since  1852,  ex¬ 
cepting  two  seasons  during  the  late  war,  suffering  from  indiges¬ 
tion  and  its  long  train  of  attendant  evils  the  entire  time,  within 
the  last  few  years,  and  I  can  safely  say,  that  the  use  of  the  water 
proved  at  all  times  more  beneficial  than  any  other  remedial  agent 
that  was  ever  prescribed  for  me. 

I  have  several  times  visited  the  mineral  springs  of  the  moun¬ 
tains  of  Virginia,  in  search  of  relief  from  dyspepsia,  but  my  pre¬ 
ference  for  this  water,  and  my  belief  in  its  superior  and  peculiar 
curative  and  restorative  virtues,  have  suffered  no  abatement  by  com¬ 
parison. 

With  assurance  of  my  very  high  regard,  I  am, 

Very  respectfully,  yours, 

STERLING  P.  THROWER. 


Route  and  Mode  of  Conveyance  to  the  Springs. 


All  persons  traveling  « either  from  the  North  or 
South  by  public  conveyance,  to  reach  these  Springs, 
must  of  necessity  pass  over  a  portion  of  the  Rich¬ 
mond  and  Danville  railroad.  Passengers  for  the 
Springs  leave  the  cars  of  this  road  at  the  Scottsburg 
depot,  in  the  county  of  Halifax,  ten  miles  distant 
from  the  Springs,  from  which  point  coaches  run 
twice  daily  to  the  Springs. 

Passengers  leaving  Baltimore,  Washington  or  Nor¬ 
folk,  by  the  early  morning  trains,  reach  the  Springs 
about  8  o’clock  the  same  evening. 


TES  OIF  BOARD. 

Board  per  Day, . $  3  00 

Board  per  Week, . 20.00 

Board  per  Month,  of  28  days,  -  -  65.00 

Children,  under  ten  years  of  age,  and  colored 
servants,  half  price.  White  servants  charged  in  pro¬ 
portion  to  accommodations  furnished. 

F.  (3!QQ)BE> 


